EWIMS reduced the percentage of students who failed one or more courses after one year¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q4
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q4 i? In a randomized controlled trial, the percentage of students who failed one or more courses was significantly lower in EWIMS schools (21 percent) than in control schools (26 percent). → Faria 2017

Evidence¶

Faria 2017¶

Faria, A.-M., Sorensen, N., Heppen, J., Bowdon, J., Taylor, S., Eisner, R., & Foster, S. (2017). Getting students on track for graduation: Impacts of the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System after one year (REL 2017–272). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs

q4 · i? · causal · r2

Randomized controlled trial of 73 high schools analyzing extant student records with multilevel regression. The course failure rate was "lower in EWIMS schools (21 percent) than in control schools (26 percent)".

"The percentage of students who failed one or more courses was lower in EWIMS schools (21 percent) than in control schools (26 percent; see figure 3). This 5 percentage point difference was statistically significant."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• EWIMS did not reduce the percentage of students with low GPA on the binary indicator, though continuous GPA was higher in EWIMS schools — related
• EWIMS did not reduce the percentage of students who were suspended after one year — related
• EWIMS reduced the percentage of students who were chronically absent after one year of implementation — related
• Ninth-grade early warning systems around course grades and attendance led to substantial improvements in grades, graduation rates, and test-measured learning gains — a broader claim this one bears on