Technical Documentation for the Eighth American School District Panel Survey

David Grant, Claude Messan Setodji, Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather L. Schwartz

ResearchPublished Mar 14, 2024

The American School District Panel (ASDP) is the newest addition to RAND's American Educator Panels (AEP) and was designed to survey district leaders two times each school year. RAND recruits ASDP members using probabilistic sampling methods, which allow researchers to weight survey results to generalize to the national population of school districts. This report provides technical information about the fall 2023 ASDP survey of district leaders. The authors describe the survey administration and weighting processes that they used to produce nationally representative estimates.

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Grant, David, Claude Messan Setodji, Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti, and Heather L. Schwartz, Technical Documentation for the Eighth American School District Panel Survey, RAND Corporation, RR-A956-20, 2024. As of April 30, 2025: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA956-20.html

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Grant, David, Claude Messan Setodji, Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti, and Heather L. Schwartz, Technical Documentation for the Eighth American School District Panel Survey. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA956-20.html.
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