Growth matters more than achievement or status when parents choose between schools¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causalr?·q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2026: baselines and conditions change
Subclaims¶
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This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q2 i? When choosing between schools, growth information weighs more heavily with parents than other quality indicators. → Shira Haderlein 2021
Evidence¶
Shira Haderlein 2021¶
Shira Haderlein. (2021). How Do Parents Evaluate and Select Schools? Evidence From a Survey Experiment. American Educational Research Journal (online ahead of print). https://www.mathematica.org/publications/how-do-parents-evaluate-and-select-schools-evidence-from-a-survey-experiment doi:10.3102/00028312211046360
q2 · i? · causal · r?
In the same randomized survey experiment, the study reports that "growth matters more when choosing between schools," distinguishing the choice context from the quality-evaluation context. No effect size is printed in the available text.
"Results suggest that achievement matters to parents but status matters more when evaluating quality and growth matters more when choosing between schools."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- School status matters more than achievement to parents when evaluating school quality — reports the opposite
- Student demographics affect parents' likelihood of selecting into a school — related
- Student demographics affect parents' perceptions of school quality — related
- Displaying data with icons or concise summaries led parents to choose schools with higher academic performance than graphs, numbers, or detailed displays — related
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growth-matters-more-when-choosing-between-schools |
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Growth matters more than achievement or status when parents choose between schools |
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Growth matters more than achievement or status when parents choose between schools |
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2021 |
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2026 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-08 |
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1 — shira-haderlein-2021 |
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