Teacher-to-parent communication did not affect teachers' assessments of student effort or in-class behavior¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The treatment produced no compelling evidence of effects on teacher-rated effort or in-class behavior. → 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

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Null result from teacher surveys (three Likert-scale questions on effort, behavior, and teacher-student relationship) collected for 534 of 576 student-class combinations, a 92.7% response rate. No effect size is printed, so impact is null.

"We find no compelling evidence that the treatment affected either of these measures."

Discussion¶

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