Four years of multiple UCSMP courses have potentially positive effects on general mathematics achievement, with a small extent of evidence¶

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q2 i? In one longitudinal quasi-experimental study of 62 students, the cumulative effect of four UCSMP courses was a statistically significant positive effect on general mathematics achievement (average improvement index +23). → What Works Clearinghouse 2016

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2016¶

What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2016). What Works Clearinghouse intervention report: University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP). What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/641

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Hirschhorn (1993), a 4-year quasi-experiment matching UCSMP students to comparison students on sixth-grade scores in two sites; the WWC pooled both sites and, after adjusting for multiple comparisons, characterized the finding as a statistically significant positive effect with improvement index "+23".

"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."

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