Connect with Kids shows no statistically significant effects on elementary school students' assessments of their own or classmates' behavior¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Elementary school student survey parts 1 and 2 showed no statistically significant differences between intervention and comparison groups (effect sizes 0.27 and 0.25, both ns). → What Works Clearinghouse 2006

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2006¶

What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2006). WWC Intervention Report: Connect with Kids. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/104

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Quasi-experimental study of grades 3–5 in 24 classrooms. WWC table shows effect sizes of 0.27 and 0.25, both marked ns, with improvement indices of +10 for each elementary survey part; equivalence was not tested.

"The study found no statistically significant effects on elementary school students’ assessments of their own or their classmates’ behavior (elementary school student survey part I and part II)."

Discussion¶

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