City Connects shows no impact on MCAS measures in elementary school¶

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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 did not demonstrate any impact on MCAS measures in elementary school. → 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

In Study 1's propensity-weighted two-level regression models predicting standardized MCAS scores in Grades 3 to 8, the article reports no impact on elementary school MCAS measures. Equivalence was not formally tested; the article reports absence of demonstrated impact.

"City Connects did not demonstrate any impact on MCAS measures in elementary school."

Discussion¶

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