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A full year of telecast seventh-grade mathematics did not produce pupil achievement gains reflecting teachers' inservice growth

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1959 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Pupil achievement did not reflect any value resulting from the teachers' inservice experiences in the telecast mathematics study. → Cincinnati Public Schools; Holmes 1959

Evidence

Cincinnati Public Schools; Holmes 1959

Cincinnati Public Schools; Holmes, Presley D., Jr. (1959). Report of Three Experiments in the Use of Television in Instruction, 1958-59; Television Research in the Teaching-Learning Process. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02713451

q2 · i? · causal · r1

A full year of seventh-grade mathematics was telecast to determine whether teacher inservice growth would occur and result in greater pupil achievement. The abstract reports achievement "did not reflect any value resulting from the inservice experiences of the teachers."

"In the mathematics study, pupil achievement did not reflect any value resulting from the inservice experiences of the teachers;"

Discussion

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type claim
id tv-math-inservice-no-achievement-value
title A full year of telecast seventh-grade mathematics did not produce pupil achievement gains reflecting teachers' inservice growth
description A full year of telecast seventh-grade mathematics did not produce pupil achievement gains reflecting teachers' inservice growth
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1959
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sources 1 — cincinnati-public-schools-holmes-1959

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