Private schooling is associated with a small positive average advantage in civic outcomes over public schooling (0.055 SD).¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across 531 effects from 57 studies, private schooling is associated with an average civic-outcome advantage of 0.055 SD, statistically significant at the 99% confidence interval. → Shakeel 2024

Evidence¶

Shakeel 2024¶

Shakeel, M. D., Wolf, P. J., Johnson, A. H., Harris, M. A., & Morris, S. R. (2024). The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09874-1

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Pre-registered RVE meta-analysis pooling 531 effect sizes from 57 qualified studies across 40 databases, comparing private with government-run public schooling on civic outcomes. The pooled estimate is "an increase of 0.055 standard deviations" significant at greater than 99% confidence; no standardized effect size beyond the pooled g is printed.

"Using Robust Variance Estimation (RVE) regression and meta-regression, we determine that the average reported effect of private schooling on any of the civic outcomes is an increase of 0.055 standard deviations that is statistically significant with greater than 99% confidence."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Civic Mindedness — outcome: instruction changes it

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• The distribution of individual study estimates is mostly null, with 168 positive, 320 null, and 43 negative findings at 90% confidence intervals. — related
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