Vivaldi individual school report (Unit 8888) as a longitudinal outcome-tracking artifact¶

Element · All elements
Evidence · 6 claims (4 for, 2 mixed) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study

Description¶

This artifact is a school-specific tracking report that follows one elementary school's graduates into Chicago Public Schools high schools and Academic Preparatory Centers. It combines a five-year outcomes tracking design, in which it "tracks for five years members of the eighth-grade class of 1997", with a one-year on-track design covering the eighth-grade classes of 1997 to 2001. It presents results in ten tables and two figures broken out by gender, eighth-grade ITBS achievement level, and destination high school, and is explicitly meant to be informative, not evaluative.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to CPS Student Information System codes for dropout, graduation, and leaving-CPS status, and to high school transcript data

Constraints¶

• The report cannot follow students into non-CPS high schools, so outcomes for those enrollees are not reported
• Data do not adjust for student population factors such as low-income percentage, special education eligibility, or English language learner status

Target Learners¶

• Eighth-grade graduates of Vivaldi Elementary School entering Chicago Public Schools high schools or Academic Preparatory Centers

Target Learning Goals¶

• Monitoring post-elementary achievement and progress toward high school graduation

Claims¶

• Vivaldi students' first-year on-track rates differed across destination high schools for the 1997 cohort [+W]
• Vivaldi students' first-year on-track rates differed across destination high schools for the 2001 cohort [+W]
• Vivaldi first-year on-track counts fluctuated between 24 and 31 across the classes of 1997–2001 [+W]
• The on-track indicator is strongly related to students' likelihood of graduating [+W]
• First-year performance is treated as important enough that graduates are attributed to their first-enrolled high school [~W]
• Systemwide CPS first-year on-track percentages ranged from 44.8 to 50.8 across the 1997–2001 cohorts [~W]

Related Elements¶

• On Track Indicator Measure

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Miller, Shazia Rafiullah; Luppescu, Stuart; Correa, Macarena. (2003). How Well Do Vivaldi Students Succeed After Elementary School? (Unit 8888). Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/how-well-do-vivaldi-students-succeed-after-elementary-school