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First Step to Success shows potentially positive effects on other academic performance (SSRS Academic Competence, effect size 0.32)

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i1 Walker et al. (2009) found a positive and statistically significant difference between treatment and comparison groups on the SSRS Academic Competence Subscale. → First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report 2012

Evidence

First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report 2012

First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report. (2012). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/179

q3 · i1 · causal · r2

Single RCT in Albuquerque grades 1–3. The WWC-calculated effect size was "0.32" (improvement index +12, p = .03) on the nine-item teacher-rated Academic Competence Subscale, yielding a potentially positive effects rating with small extent of evidence.

"Walker et al. (2009) found, and the WWC confirmed, a positive and statistically significant difference between treatment and comparison groups on the SSRS Academic Competence Subscale."

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title First Step to Success shows potentially positive effects on other academic performance (SSRS Academic Competence, effect size 0.32)
description First Step to Success shows potentially positive effects on other academic performance (SSRS Academic Competence, effect size 0.32)
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2012
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