After the first year of the EITP pilot, cohort 1 schools improved reading achievement by 0.10 standard deviations relative to cohort 2 schools¶
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q3 i1 A process-based teacher evaluation pilot produced a statistically significant 0.10 SD improvement in school-level reading achievement after one year. → Matthew P. Steinberg and Lauren Sartain 2015
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Matthew P. Steinberg and Lauren Sartain 2015¶
Matthew P. Steinberg and Lauren Sartain. (2015). Does Teacher Evaluation Improve School Performance? Experimental Evidence from Chicago's Excellence in Teaching Project. Association for Education Finance and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1162/EDFP_a_00173
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Randomized controlled comparison of 44 cohort 1 pilot schools and 49 cohort 2 comparison schools; intent-to-treat regression with area fixed effects, school covariates, and baseline reading. The printed effect size is 0.10 standard deviations in reading, significant at the 5 percent level in table 8.
"net of school covariates and controlling for the schools' baseline reading achievement, reading achievement in cohort 1 schools improved by 0. 10 standard deviations compared with cohort 2 schools (see column 4 of table 8)."
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Related Claims¶
- Higher-achieving schools realized a bigger first-year reading benefit from the evaluation pilot than lower-achieving schools — related
- The reading achievement gap between cohort 1 and cohort 2 schools persisted into the second year, with the year 3 estimate no longer statistically significant — related
- The first-year effect of the EITP pilot on school-level math achievement (0.05 SD) was not statistically significant — related
- Low-poverty schools benefited more from the evaluation pilot than high-poverty schools, in both math and reading — related
- No significant heterogeneity in pilot effects by school racial/ethnic composition was found — related
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After the first year of the EITP pilot, cohort 1 schools improved reading achievement by 0.10 standard deviations relative to cohort 2 schools |
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After the first year of the EITP pilot, cohort 1 schools improved reading achievement by 0.10 standard deviations relative to cohort 2 schools |
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