Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on academic achievement, with a significant effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in the other¶
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q2 i? Across the two studies, the outcome average improvement index on cumulative GPA was +4, but the effect was statistically significant in only one of the two studies. → What Works Clearinghouse 2020
Evidence¶
What Works Clearinghouse 2020¶
What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2020). Success Boston Coaching (WWC 2021-001). https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/708
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WWC synthesis of cumulative grade point average outcomes from two QED studies totaling 5,543 students, with an outcome average improvement index of +4; the 2019 study's GPA effect was not statistically significant (p = 0.82). No effect size is printed in the quoted finding sentence.
"The WWC determined that one study that meets WWC group design standards with reservations showed evidence of a positive and statistically significant effect of Success Boston Coaching on academic achievement (Linkow et al., 2017), and one study that meets WWC group design standards with reservations showed evidence of an indeterminate effect of Success Boston Coaching on academic achievement (Linkow et al., 2019)."
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Related Claims¶
- In the Linkow et al. (2017) QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on cumulative college GPA — related
- In the Linkow et al. (2019) scale-up QED, coaching showed no statistically significant effect on cumulative college GPA (effect size 0.01, p = 0.82) — related
- Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on progressing in college, based on two quasi-experimental studies meeting WWC standards with reservations — related
- In the Linkow et al. (2017) QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on second-year college enrollment — related
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Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on academic achievement, with a significant effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in the other |
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Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on academic achievement, with a significant effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in the other |
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