Teacher-to-parent communication increases the probability that students earn course credit in a summer credit recovery program¶
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q3 i? Students whose parents were assigned to receive additional teacher-to-parent communication were 6.5 percentage points more likely to earn course credit than control students. → Kraft and Rogers 2013
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Kraft and Rogers 2013¶
Matthew A. Kraft and Todd Rogers. (2013). Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Experimental Evidence from a Low-Cost Communication Policy. SREE Fall 2013 Conference Abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563011
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Blocked randomized field trial with 435 recruited students in a summer credit recovery program; pooled ITT analysis of the binary credit outcome. The article reports a "6.5 percentage points (p=.048)" increase relative to control, where 87.2% of control students earned credit.
"students whose parents were assigned to receive either form of additional information were 6.5 percentage points (p=.048) more likely to earn a course credit for classes they enrolled in compared to the control group"
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Related Claims¶
- Needs-improvement messages, not positive messages, drove the credit-earning effect — related
- Teacher-to-parent communication reduces student absenteeism — related
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