The supporting evidence for TEEMSS comes from a quasi-experimental study meeting WWC standards only with reservations¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 2 studies · 2 causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The single qualifying study is a quasi-experimental design in which the same teachers taught the treatment group (2005–06) and an earlier comparison group (2004–05) taught with regular methods. → qed-1 (2)

Evidence¶

qed-1¶

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2012, May). Science intervention report: Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science (TEEMSS). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/610.

q2 · i? · causal · r2

The WWC research summary reports that three studies were reviewed; one quasi-experimental study met standards with reservations, while the remaining two did not meet eligibility screens or evidence standards. No studies met standards without reservations.

"One study (Zucker, Tinker, Staudt, Mansfield, & Metcalf, 2008) is a quasi-experimental design that meets WWC evidence standards with reservations."

qed-1 (2)¶

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2012, May). Science intervention report: Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science (TEEMSS). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/610.

q2 · i? · causal · r2

The study design compared successive cohorts of the same teachers across two school years in more than 100 classrooms in over a dozen school districts in three states; the comparison curricula addressed science education standards but the authors did not state whether they were inquiry-based or used technology.

"Students in the treatment group were taught with the TEEMSS curriculum during the 2005–06 school year. Students in the comparison group were taught during the 2004–05 school year using the teachers’ regular teaching methods."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Only three of twelve identified OLI studies met WWC group design standards — related
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• Only one of eight unit outcomes in the qualifying study met WWC evidence standards; seven were excluded — related
• Only one of seven eligible studies of I CAN Learn® met WWC group design standards, and it met them only with reservations — related