FGC showed no impact on hard educational performance outcomes (failure, final marks, truancy) at the end of the school year¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The trial did not detect any impact on students' failure, final marks in several subjects, or truancy rate at the end of the school year. → Argentin et al. 2016

Evidence¶

Argentin et al. 2016¶

Gianluca Argentin, Gian Paolo Barbetta, Francesca Maci. (2016). Increasing parental involvement to promote dropout prevention. Lessons from an RCT in Italian lower secondary schools. SREE Spring 2016 Conference. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED567232

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Short-term impact analyses used the May 2014 questionnaire and June 2014 administrative data (grades, absences, failure) from the randomized 262 students, estimating ITT and ATT. No effect size is printed for these null findings.

"We did not detect any impact on the hard outcomes at the end of the school year, namely: students’ failure, final marks in several subjects and truancies rate."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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