The study evaluates the relative importance of educational reforms and gaming behavior in generating test score gains by threatened schools¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2009 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The article's central analytical task is separating genuine educational reforms from gaming behavior as sources of test score gains in threatened schools. → Hanley Chiang 2009

Evidence¶

Hanley Chiang 2009¶

Hanley Chiang. (2009). How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools Affects Student Achievement. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, issue 9-10. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/how-accountability-pressure-on-failing-schools-affects-student-achievement

q3 · i? · causal · r?

The author states the study's purpose: "This article evaluates the relative importance of educational reforms and gaming behavior in generating test score gains by threatened schools," using a regression discontinuity design for medium-run effects. No effect size is printed.

"This article evaluates the relative importance of educational reforms and gaming behavior in generating test score gains by threatened schools."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Sanction threats on low-performing schools can raise student test scores in the short run, but the role of gaming behavior versus genuine reform has been uncertain — related
• Low examinee effort is a major threat to valid uses of many test scores — related
• Single composite accountability indicators are susceptible to gaming and Campbell's Law corruption pressures — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Sanction threats tend to raise school spending on instructional technology, curricular development, and teacher training — related
• Threat-induced math improvements from attending a threatened elementary school persist at least through the first one to two years of middle school — related
• Evidence for persistence of threat-induced reading improvements is less consistent than for math — related
• Reformed elementary schools made significant test-score improvements versus matched comparison schools, with gains growing gradually over four years — related