KIPP high schools have positive, statistically significant achievement impacts for students new to the KIPP network, but not for students continuing from KIPP middle schools¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? For high school students new to the KIPP network, KIPP high schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on achievement. → Christina Clark Tuttle 2015 q2 i? For students continuing to KIPP high schools from KIPP middle schools, impacts on achievement are not statistically significant. → Christina Clark Tuttle 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Christina Clark Tuttle 2015¶

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kevin Booker, Gregory Chojnacki, Thomas Coen, Lisbeth Goble. (2015). Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume I, Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary). Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/executive-summary-understanding-the-effect-of-kipp-as-it-scales-volume-i-impacts-on-achievement

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The key findings distinguish new entrants: KIPP high schools show "positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement for high school students new to the KIPP network." No effect sizes are printed.

"KIPP high schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement for high school students new to the KIPP network."

Christina Clark Tuttle 2015 (2)¶

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kevin Booker, Gregory Chojnacki, Thomas Coen, Lisbeth Goble. (2015). Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume I, Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary). Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/executive-summary-understanding-the-effect-of-kipp-as-it-scales-volume-i-impacts-on-achievement

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The same key-findings section reports that for continuing KIPP students, "impacts on achievement are not statistically significant." Equivalence was not tested; no effect size is printed.

"For students continuing to KIPP high schools from KIPP middle schools, impacts on achievement are not statistically significant."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• KIPP elementary schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on three of four measures of reading and mathematics skills — related
• For students continuing from KIPP middle schools to KIPP high schools, achievement impacts are not statistically significant — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• KIPP high schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful achievement impacts for students new to the KIPP network — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• For continuing KIPP students, KIPP high schools have positive impacts on college preparation activities and the likelihood of applying to college — related
• KIPP charter schools have positive effects on English language arts achievement for middle and high school students — related
• KIPP charter schools have positive effects on mathematics achievement for middle and high school students — related
• The findings come from Mathematica's multiyear study of KIPP middle schools conducted for Arnold Ventures — related
• KIPP middle schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement in math, reading, science, and social studies — related
• In the vast majority of 22 KIPP middle schools, impacts on students' state assessment scores in math and reading are positive, statistically significant, and educationally substantial — related