Professional Development Incentives for Oregon’s Early Childhood Education Workforce: A Randomized Study

Professional Development Incentives for Oregon’s Early Childhood Education Workforce: A Randomized Study

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Ashley Pierson
Jill Cannon
Rachel Perera
Kata Mihaly
Rebekah LeMahieu
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Education Northwest
RAND Corporation
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Abstract

This study used two randomized controlled trials to test whether sending emails and offering different financial incentives to Oregon early childhood education (ECE) workforce members increased career lattice sign-up and increased education and training levels or workplace retention. The findings suggest that low-touch interventions such as emails have promise for increasing training hours but are not sufficient to induce changes in career lattice sign-up, continuing postsecondary education, or workplace retention for Oregon ECE workforce members.

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Ashley Pierson