City Connects shows positive impacts on some Grade 4 and most Grade 5 report card measures in Boston elementary schools¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? City Connects had positive impacts on some report card measures in Grade 4 and most report card scores in Grade 5. → Walsh et al. 2015

Evidence¶

Walsh et al. 2015¶

Mary Walsh, Anastasia Raczek, Erin Sibley, Terrence Lee-St. John, Chen An, Bercem Akbayin, Eric Dearing, Claire Foley. (2015). City Connects: Building an Argument for Effects on Student Achievement with a Quasi-Experimental Design. SREE Spring 2015 Conference. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED562168

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Study 1 used two-level weighted linear regression models with propensity score weights applied at the student level to predict report card scores in Grades 3 to 5. The article reports positive impacts on "some of the report card measures in Grade 4 and on most report card scores in Grade 5." No effect size is printed for these findings.

"For elementary school outcomes, City Connects had positive impacts on some of the report card measures in Grade 4 and on most report card scores in Grade 5."

Discussion¶

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