Definition of Key Terms
Education program: AmeriCorps members help pre-K students maintain enrollment in and succeed in early childhood education programs. The "help" that AmeriCorps members provide does not need to be in direct service to the students. However, the AmeriCorps members must provide direct support that makes the program possible.
Complete participation: At the outset of the activity, the program should indicate how many days or hours are required in order to complete the activity. Then they will only count the number of students who meet that threshold by the end of the year. This number will be used as the denominator for selected measures and therefore the amount of attendance should be enough to influence the results.
How to Calculate Measure/Collect Data
Count of students from Measure 20 who complete participation in the activity as indicated by above definition.
Additional data collection tips can be found in the Resource Center at:http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/files/Education_Outputs_ED1_ED2.doc
Notes: This is a primary measure CNCS will used to establish how many children are participating in early childhood education programs. Measure 20 and Measure 21 together will indicate how many children drop out/are retained by those programs.