Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on progressing in college, based on two quasi-experimental studies meeting WWC standards with reservations¶
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q2 i? Across two QED studies meeting WWC standards with reservations, coaching showed a positive and statistically significant effect on progressing in college, with an outcome average improvement index of +9 based on 8,375 students. → 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 two quasi-experimental studies (statistically/propensity matched comparison groups) of Boston Public Schools graduates. The report describes "evidence of a positive effect with no overriding contrary evidence", an outcome average improvement index of +9 across 8,375 students; no effect size is printed in the quoted finding sentence.
"The WWC determined that two studies that meet WWC group design standards with reservations (Linkow et al., 2017; Linkow et al., 2019) showed evidence of a positive and statistically significant effect of Success Boston Coaching on progressing in college."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- In the Linkow et al. (2017) QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on second-year college enrollment — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- In the Linkow et al. (2019) scale-up QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on second-year college enrollment — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on academic achievement, with a significant effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in the other — related
- 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
- The evaluation assesses SMDEP impacts on college graduation and medical or dental school matriculation using propensity score matching — related
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Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on progressing in college, based on two quasi-experimental studies meeting WWC standards with reservations |
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Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on progressing in college, based on two quasi-experimental studies meeting WWC standards with reservations |
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2020 |
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