The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program has potentially positive effects on completing school for at-risk youth, with 61% of the program group reporting a diploma or GED versus 36% of controls 21 months after random assignment¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2010 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Program group members reported significantly higher rates of having received a high school diploma or GED 21 months after random assignment than control group members. → National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program 2010 q3 i? The WWC improvement index for completing school is +22 percentile points based on one finding in one study. → National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program 2010 (2)

Evidence¶

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program 2010¶

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program. (2010). WWC Intervention Report: National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program. What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/329

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Randomized controlled trial by Millenky, Bloom, and Dillon (2010) in 10 sites across 10 states; the analysis sample included 1,196 youths who completed the 21-month follow-up survey. The WWC confirmed "a statistically significant positive difference between the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program group and the control group."

"At follow-up, 61% of program group members reported having a diploma or GED, compared with 36% of control group members."

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program 2010 (2)¶

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program. (2010). WWC Intervention Report: National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program. What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/329

q3 · i? · causal · r2

WWC-calculated improvement index for the completing school domain, representing the percentile-rank difference between the average intervention and comparison student. The article reports the effect size was "large enough to be considered substantively important according to WWC criteria (at least 0.25)" but prints no exact effect size.

"The improvement index for completing school is +22 percen- tile points based on one finding in one study."

Discussion¶

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