Table 4.
Monitoring of recruitment of schools for TATAMS by grade at wave I
| Grade 6 | Grade 8 | Grade 10 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | School | District | School | District | School | ||||||||
| District Status | School Status | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| No responsea | School not contacted | 109 | 50.7 | 222 | 31.5 | 109 | 49.1 | 226 | 30.7 | 109 | 50.2 | 202 | 38.3 |
| Declined participation | School not contacted | 51 | 23.7 | 311 | 44.1 | 53 | 23.9 | 333 | 45.2 | 50 | 23.0 | 209 | 39.7 |
| Agreed to Participate | Agreed to Participate | 14 | 6.5 | 26 | 3.7 | 17 | 7.7 | 30 | 4.1 | 22 | 10.1 | 38 | 7.2 |
| Declined participation | 3 | 1.4 | 8 | 1.1 | 6 | 2.7 | 13 | 1.8 | 9 | 4.1 | 12 | 2.3 | |
| No Response | 3 | 1.4 | 9 | 1.3 | 5 | 2.3 | 11 | 1.5 | 6 | 2.8 | 22 | 4.2 | |
| Not selected at randomb | 20 | 9.3 | 50 | 7.1 | 19 | 8.6 | 48 | 6.5 | 19 | 8.8 | 38 | 7.2 | |
| Waitlisted (never contacted) | 15 | 7.0 | 79 | 11.2 | 13 | 5.9 | 76 | 10.3 | 2 | 0.9 | 6 | 1.1 | |
| Total | 215 | 100 | 705 | 100 | 222 | 100 | 737 | 100 | 217 | 100 | 527 | 100 | |
a
No response to recruitment efforts between May 2014 and May 2015
b
Public schools within school districts that were previously randomly chosen were not eligible for randomization again because, without the approval of the school districts, the schools could not be contacted; these will be referred to as schools “not selected at random”.