兰德-美国公立学校学前教师调查-2024年春季技术文件和调查结果（英）

Research ReportDAVID GRANT, ANNA SHAPIRO, ELIZABETH D. STEINER, ASHLEY WOO, JILL S. CANNON, CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH DOSS, LYNN A. KAROLYAmerican Public School Pre-K Teacher SurveySpring 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey ResultsThis publication has completed RAND’s research quality-assurance process but was not professionally copyedited.For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RRA3279-2.About RANDRAND is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. To learn more about RAND, visit www.rand.org.Research IntegrityOur mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis is enabled through our core values of quality and objectivity and our unwavering commitment to the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior. To help ensure our research and analysis are rigorous, objective, and nonpartisan, we subject our research publications to a robust and exacting quality-assurance process; avoid both the appearance and reality of financial and other conflicts of interest through staff training, project screening, and a policy of mandatory disclosure; and pursue transparency in our research engagements through our commitment to the open publication of our research findings and recommendations, disclosure of the source of funding of published research, and policies to ensure intellectual independence. For more information, visit www.rand.org/about/research-integrity.RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.© 2025 RAND Corporation is a registered trademark.Print and Electronic Distribution RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. All users of the publication are permitted to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial) without further permission or fees being required.ii About This Report This technical report provides detailed information about the sample, survey instruments, and resultant data for the Spring 2024 Pre-Kindergarten Teacher Survey (PKTS) which was administered via RAND’s American Teacher Panel (ATP). The ATP is a nationally representative sample of public school teachers and part of the broader American Educator Panels (AEP), which also includes school leaders and district leaders across the country. The panels are a proud member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s Transparency Initiative. The PKTS collected information about public school Pre-K teachers’ program type, curriculum, assessments, instructional planning, professional learning, wages and benefits, hours worked, classroom characteristics, and demog