Text-message alerts to parents about incomplete middle-school homework raise student performance¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Virtually all parents offered text messages about their middle-school child's incomplete homework agreed to receive them, and children of randomly selected offered parents performed significantly better than children whose parents did not receive the offer. → Adam M. Lavecchia 2014

Evidence¶

Adam M. Lavecchia 2014¶

Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, and Philip Oreopoulos. (2014). Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities. NBER Working Paper No. 20609. http://www.nber.org/papers/w20609

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports, citing Bergman (2014), a randomly selected treatment in which parents were offered text messages about incomplete homework; children of offered parents performed significantly better. No effect size is printed, so impact is null.

"Bergman (2014) finds virtually all parents who are offered text messages to inform them of their middle school child’s incomplete homework agree to receive the messages, and that the children of these randomly selected parents perform significantly better than those whose parents do not receive the offer."

Discussion¶

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