PLI students digitally collaborated significantly more than non-PLI students with the same technology access, and digital collaboration had a small significant association with SBAC scores¶
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q2 i? PLI students digitally collaborated significantly more than non-PLI students with equal technology access, and digital collaboration showed a small but statistically significant association with higher ELA and math SBAC scores. → Peters 2018
Evidence¶
Peters 2018¶
Peters, V., Means, B., Langworthy, M., Neufeld, P., Coe, R., Meehan, K., & Smith, S. (2018). Enabling Analytics for Improvement: Lessons from Year 2 of Fresno's Personalized Learning Initiative. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/f5ad25ac-1bc9-4a05-9a4e-24c25ab19e8d doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/53
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Log-data analysis of digital collaboration captured automatically as students used digital tools, comparing PLI and non-PLI students with the same technology access. The report describes the score association as "small but statistically significant"; no effect size value is printed.
"As in Year 1's analysis, PLI students are digitally collaborating significantly more than non-PLI students with the same level of technology access. Such digital collaboration also had a small but statistically significant association with higher ELA and mathematics scores on SBAC in Year 2."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Collaboration — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- PLI students outscored non-PLI peers on adjusted SBAC ELA and math assessments in most tested elementary and middle grades — related
- Students whose teachers attended one or two PLI professional learning courses gained more on SBAC, with larger gains for two sessions than one — related
- PLI was associated with positive SBAC gains for African American, Hispanic, and Asian elementary students and no negative impact on any ethnic group — related
- HMH Personal Math Trainer use was associated with math gains in grades 4, 5, and 8 but negatively associated in grade 7, and teacher-created assignments showed the strongest association — related
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PLI students digitally collaborated significantly more than non-PLI students with the same technology access, and digital collaboration had a small significant association with SBAC scores |
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PLI students digitally collaborated significantly more than non-PLI students with the same technology access, and digital collaboration had a small significant association with SBAC scores |
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