Needs-improvement messages, not positive messages, drove the credit-earning effect¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Students in the improvement information condition experienced an 8.8 percentage point increase in probability of earning course credit, while the positive information effect was not statistically significant. → Kraft and Rogers 2013

Evidence¶

Kraft and Rogers 2013¶

Matthew A. Kraft and Todd Rogers. (2013). Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Experimental Evidence from a Low-Cost Communication Policy. SREE Fall 2013 Conference Abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563011

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Separate ITT estimates by treatment arm from the same blocked randomized field trial. The improvement information effect was "8.8 percentage point (p=0.016)"; the positive information effect was 4.5 percentage points (p=0.236), not significant.

"the large positive effect of communication is driven by students in the improvement information condition who experienced an 8.8 percentage point (p=0.016) increase in their probability of earning course credit"

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