Implementation of assigned communication was incomplete but high for weekly messages¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teachers completed 54.0% of assigned introductory calls but 91.2% of assigned weekly sentences were written by teachers and sent to parents. → Kraft and Rogers 2013

Evidence¶

Kraft and Rogers 2013¶

Matthew A. Kraft and Todd Rogers. (2013). Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Experimental Evidence from a Low-Cost Communication Policy. SREE Fall 2013 Conference Abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563011

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Implementation analysis from detailed communication records in the field trial. "91.2% of all assigned sentences were written by teachers and sent to parents"; of phone-delivered sentences, 54.1% reached a live conversation. No significant differences in call completion across groups.

"Overall, 54.0% of all assigned calls were made by teachers"

Discussion¶

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