ERIC Number: ED585317
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jan-16
Pages: 57
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Year 2 Massachusetts Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG). Evaluation Report
Goodson, Barbara; Checkoway, Amy; Yudron, Monica; Acevedo, Maria
Abt Associates
The Year 2 Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) implementation study focuses on the second year of supports and outcomes for teachers, classroom quality, and supports for families. Overall, compared to its first year of implementation, the PEG programs in Year 2 (which was the 2016-17 school year) appear to have made progress towards delivering the key quality components of the PEG model at a consistently high level across all 48 classrooms. After introducing the PEG program (Chapter 1), this report describes the second year of supports and outcomes for teachers (Chapters 2 and 3), classroom quality (Chapter 4), supports for families (Chapter 5), and concludes with a discussion of overall implementation progress in Year 2 and next steps for Year 3 (Chapter 6). In addition to describing the level of implementation of key PEG quality components, Chapters 2 and 5 also note changes in implementation progress or strategy from Year 1 to Year 2, and the extent to which programs were able to address challenges identified in Year 1 during Year 2. Taken together, this report provides EEC and the larger PEG community with an important opportunity to learn from implementation successes and challenges experienced by the PEG program over the past year and can inform policy and programmatic decisions about further expansion of high-quality state-funded preschool. [This report was written with the assistance of Kerry Hofer and Rian Watt. To view Year 1 of the evaluation report, see ED582097.]
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grants, Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, Program Descriptions, Access to Education, Low Income Groups, Educational Quality, Delivery Systems, Outcomes of Education, Preschool Teachers, Parents, Models, School Community Programs, Family Involvement, Educational Strategies, Program Effectiveness, State Aid, Surveys, Interviews, Agency Cooperation, Demography, Observation, Teacher Background, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Coaching (Performance), Released Time, Teacher Collaboration, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility, Family Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Curriculum, Faculty Development, Planning
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC)
Authoring Institution: Abt Associates, Inc.; University of Massachusetts Boston
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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