Document the lotteries schools of choice conduct and their waiting-list admission procedures¶

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Description¶

The article describes, as part of its methodological guidance, the actual admission mechanisms schools of choice use: "the lotteries charter schools conduct and procedures for admitting students from waiting lists." Understanding these procedures is presented as necessary groundwork for researchers who want to use lotteries to estimate impacts of schools on student outcomes.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Researchers must observe and document how oversubscribed schools run lotteries and how students are admitted from waiting lists.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• students applying to oversubscribed charter middle schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• accurate estimation of school impacts on student outcomes

Related Strategies¶

• Use school lotteries as a research design for estimating impacts of schools of choice on student outcomes
• Use school admissions lotteries as randomized experiments to estimate long-term civic outcomes

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason, Melissa Clark. (2011). Using Lotteries to Evaluate Schools of Choice: Evidence from a National Study of Charter Schools. Economics of Education Review, vol. 31, issue 2. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/using-lotteries-to-evaluate-schools-of-choice-evidence-from-a-national-study-of-charter-schools