Project QUEST is likely to increase industry-recognized credential, certificate, or license completion (improvement index +15, two studies, 1,301 students)¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r3 · q4 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q4 i? Two RCTs meeting WWC standards without reservations showed a positive, statistically significant effect of Project QUEST on industry-recognized credential, certificate, or license completion. → Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021 q4 i2 In the Elliott & Roder (2017) RCT, 72.60% of the intervention group earned a vocational certificate or license versus 49.10% of the comparison group (effect size 0.61, improvement index +23, p = .01, 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 synthesis of two randomized controlled trials with low attrition meeting standards without reservations. The report rates the domain "Positive effects", indicating "strong evidence of a positive effect, with no overriding contrary evidence", based on 1,301 students.

"The WWC determined that two studies that meet WWC group design standards without reservations (Elliott & Roder, 2017; Rolston et al., 2017) showed evidence of a positive and statistically significant effect of Project QUEST on industry-recognized credential, certificate, or license completion."

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 · i2 · causal · r3

Table 4 row from the Elliott & Roder (2017) RCT: intervention mean 72.60% versus comparison 49.10%, mean difference 23.50, effect size 0.61, improvement index +23, p = .01. The outcome average across studies for this domain is 0.40.

"Earned a vocational certificate or license (%) (Elliott & Roder, 2017)a Full sample 343 72.60 49.10 23.50 0.61 +23 .01"

Discussion¶

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