Recovery high schools were no better or worse than comparison high schools on grade point average, truancy, or alcohol use in the single included study¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? After pretest adjustment, RHS students' grade point average (0.26, 95% CI [‐0.04, 0.56]), truancy (0.01), and alcohol use (0.23) were similar to comparison students, with confidence intervals crossing zero. → Hennessy E. A. 2018

Evidence¶

Hennessy E. A. 2018¶

Hennessy E. A., Tanner‐Smith E. E., Finch A. J., Sathe N. A., Kugley S. A. (2018). Recovery schools for improving behavioral and academic outcomes among students in recovery from substance use disorders: a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.4073/csr.2018.9

q2 · i? · quant-synthesis · r1

The review's Results section reports pretest‐adjusted effect sizes from the single included quasi‐experimental study: GPA, truancy, and alcohol use did not differ between RHS and comparison students, with all three confidence intervals including zero. Equivalence was not formally tested.

"students in the RHS condition reported levels of grade point averages (= 0.26, 95% CI [‐0.04, 0.56]), truancy (= 0.01, 95% CI [‐0.29, 0.31]), and alcohol use (= 0.23, 95% CI [‐0.07, 0.53]) similar to participants in the comparison condition."

Discussion¶

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