@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Reviewing evidence on teacher evaluation, Wyckoff finds achievement gains in Cincinnati, Dallas, Chicago & DC but little effect in 44 states & Houston, and argues the policy failed in implementation, not design.
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@hpatrinos.bsky.social📢 What makes school choice work? We examine 7 education systems and find that effective public-private partnerships depend on aligning competition, autonomy, accountability & information. #EdWorkingPapers
@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Post-pandemic absenteeism is often called a crisis. Tracing U.S. attendance since 1870, Jeremy Singer finds the recent decline—now about 2 extra missed days per student—is a small setback within a long rise in school participation.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Synthesizing 141 studies of reading & math apps for kids ages 3–9, Gilbert and colleagues find a moderate positive effect (d = .40), larger on researcher-developed measures and smaller in RCTs & larger studies.
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@infodocket.bsky.socialEarly Evidence on Employer Responses to
College Student Use of Generative #AI
(New Working Paper via #EdWorkingPapers; @annenberginstitute.bsky.social)
@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: In Pune, India, STEM college students—trained, coached & given scripts—partly replaced math & science teachers. Ganimian and colleagues find this raised achievement in math, science & language.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Pre-K programs are widely seen as proven policy but how strong is the evidence base? Anamarie Whitaker & colleagues show in their systematic review that the answer depends heavily on research design.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Using 1 billion student-item responses linked to adult earnings, Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Eric Nielsen, & Viviana Rodriguez find that conventional achievement measures may obscure important differences in the labor-market value of skills.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Tutoring a few kids raises reading scores for the whole school, including kids who were never tutored. A new RCT by Paul Bingley & colleagues finds a social multiplier of at least 3.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
A new study by Liliana Carolina Santos-Deonizio, @jmalamut.bsky.social, RamĂłn Antonio MartĂnez & Dorottya Demszky shows that students must be part of validating AI measures of student talk.
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Using data from Los Angeles Unified, Lucrecia Santibañez & colleagues find that dual-language immersion is associated with higher attendance for all student groups, including English Learners
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@annenberginstitute.bsky.social📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Yu Hung Yaow, Seth Gershenson, @david_blazar, & Ethan Hutt find absences continue to negatively affect student achievement, although their impact on test scores was modestly smaller in 2022–23 than before Covid-19.