Three of seven knowledge, attitudes, and values outcomes favor Facing History and Ourselves, including relationship maturity (best response) with effect size 0.45, but none remain statistically significant after WWC corrections¶

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q2 i? The study reported differences favoring the program for relationship maturity (best response score, effect size 0.45), relationship maturity (response rating score, 0.23), and racism (0.27), though the WWC recalculations found none statistically significant. → What Works Clearinghouse 2006

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2006¶

What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). WWC Intervention Report: Facing History and Ourselves. U.S. Department of Education. www.facinghistory.org. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/InterventionReport/169

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WWC table of author findings from the quasi-experiment: relationship maturity best response ES 0.45 (improvement index +17), response rating ES 0.23 (+9), racism ES 0.27 (+10). The original study reported one significant result, but WWC corrections for clustering and multiple comparisons rendered all three not significant.

"The study reported differences favoring the program for three of seven outcomes (both measures of relationship maturity and the single measure of racism), one of which (a measure of relationship maturity) was reported to be statistically significant."

Discussion¶

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