Students of TFA teachers did not perform significantly differently from students of other under-certified teachers¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2002 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students of TFA teachers did not perform significantly different from students of other under-certified teachers; equivalence was not tested. → tfa-null-1

Evidence¶

Laczko-Kerr 2002¶

Laczko-Kerr, I., & Berliner, D. C. (2002, September 6). The Effectiveness of "Teach for America" and Other Under-certified Teachers on Student Academic Achievement: A Case of Harmful Public Policy. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(37). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n37/

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Matched-pair comparison in which one subset of the 109 under-certified teachers was from Teach For America. The study reports no statistically significant difference between TFA and other under-certified teachers' students; no effect size or test statistic is printed, so equivalence was not established.

"Results indicate 1) that students of TFA teachers did not perform significantly different from students of other under-certified teachers, and 2) that students of certified teachers out-performed students of teachers who were under-certified."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• TFA shows a small positive effect on reading for early elementary students (PreK to grade 2) but not in math — related
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