Project QUEST shows no discernible effects on short-term and medium-term employment¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q4
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q4 i? Two studies meeting WWC standards showed indeterminate effects of Project QUEST on short-term employment (improvement index -1, 1,555 students). → Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021 q4 i? One study showed an indeterminate effect on medium-term employment (improvement index +8, p = 0.16, n = 343). → Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021¶

Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area. (2021). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/723

q4 · i? · quant-synthesis · r1

WWC review combining the Elliott & Roder (2017) RCT and the Juniper et al. (2020) propensity-score-matched QED of Capital IDEA. Table 4 reports employment four quarters after completion (effect size 0.14, p = 0.07) and year-round employment year 3 (effect size -0.17, p = 0.21); outcome average -0.01.

"The WWC determined that two studies that meet WWC group design standards without reservations (Elliott & Roder, 2017; Juniper et al., 2020) showed evidence of an indeterminate effect of Project QUEST on short-term employment."

Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021 (2)¶

Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area. (2021). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/723

q4 · i? · causal · r?

Table 4 row from the Elliott & Roder (2017) RCT: intervention 66.60% versus comparison 59.20% employed year-round in year 5, effect size 0.19, improvement index +8, p = 0.16, not statistically significant.

"Employment (Year-Round) (%), year 5 after random assignment Full sample 343 66.60 59.20 7.40 0.19 +8 0.16"

Discussion¶

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