Review of "SCDP Milwaukee Evaluation Report #29"

Autor/in	Cobb, Casey D.
Institution	University of Colorado at Boulder, National Education Policy Center
Titel	Review of "SCDP Milwaukee Evaluation Report #29"
Quelle	(2012), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Evaluation; Demonstration Programs; Program Effectiveness; Longitudinal Studies; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Reading Achievement; High Stakes Tests; Accountability; Scores; Trend Analysis; Mathematics Achievement; Educational Vouchers; Urban Schools; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Evaluierung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Leseleistung; Verantwortung; Trendanalyse; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	The School Choice Demonstration Project has published a series of reports written in the fifth and final year of its evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). This review is of "Report #29," a five-year longitudinal growth study, which found that a sample of elementary and middle school MPCP students outperformed a matched sample of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students in reading in the fifth year of the program. The MPCP sample also showed trends of outscoring the MPS sample in math, but these were not statistically significant. The report acknowledges that the findings come as something of a surprise given that no differences were found between MPCP and MPS samples in the prior three years. The authors cite the introduction of a high-stakes accountability policy for MPCP schools just prior to that fifth and final year as a likely cause of the sudden spike in test scores among MPCP students. Overall, the report's methods are sound and its findings are appropriately qualified. Some of report's conclusions about the MPCP's effects on achievement growth appear overly general and potentially misrepresentative given the statistical results, however. The isolated jump in reading scores, but not math scores, in that fifth and final year of the study also raises uncertainty about what actually may have caused the sudden increase and what ultimately readers learn from the study. (Contains 6 notes and references.) [This paper reviews the following document: "MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study: Fifth Year Report. SCDP Milwaukee Evaluation Report #29" (ED530071).] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Education Policy Center. School of Education 249 UCB University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309. Tel: 303-735-5290; e-mail: nepc@colorado.edu; Web site: http://nepc.colorado.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10