Four years of multiple UCSMP courses have potentially positive effects on general mathematics achievement, with site-level and measure-level inconsistency¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Hirschhorn (1993) found no statistically significant effect in one site and a positive statistically significant effect in another on the Mathematics Level 1 Achievement test; the WWC pooled both sites and found no statistically significant difference on that test. → University of Chicago School Mathematics Project 2016 q2 i? Hirschhorn (1993) found statistically significant positive effects in each site on the UCSMP-developed Applications Test, confirmed by the WWC when pooling both sites. → University of Chicago School Mathematics Project 2016 (2)

Evidence¶

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project 2016¶

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. (2016). University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) — WWC Intervention Report, Secondary Mathematics. What Works Clearinghouse. https://ucsmp.uchicago.edu

q2 · i? · causal · r?

Longitudinal 4-year quasi-experiment (Hirschhorn, 1993) matching UCSMP students to comparison students on sixth-grade scores in two suburban sites (62 students in the analytic pooled sample). Effects on the Mathematics Level 1 Achievement test differed by site; pooled results showed no statistically significant difference. No effect size is printed for this finding.

"Hirschhorn (1993) found no statistically significant effects in one site, and a positive and statistically significant effect in another, on the Mathematics Level 1 Achievement test. The WWC pooled the results from both sites and found no statistically significant differences between multiple UCSMP courses and comparison groups on the test."

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project 2016 (2)¶

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. (2016). University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) — WWC Intervention Report, Secondary Mathematics. What Works Clearinghouse. https://ucsmp.uchicago.edu

q2 · i? · causal · r?

In the same longitudinal quasi-experiment, both sites showed statistically significant positive effects on the UCSMP Applications Test, which the WWC confirmed after pooling; taking both outcomes together and "after adjusting for multiple comparisons", the WWC rated the finding a statistically significant positive effect. No effect size is printed for this finding.

"In addition, Hirschhorn (1993) found statistically significant positive effects in each site on the UCSMP-developed Applications Test, and the WWC confirmed this finding, pooling the results from both sites."

Discussion¶

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