Moving on Up? A Virtual School, Student Mobility, and Achievement. EdWorkingPaper No. 20-309

Autor/inn/en	Paul, James D.; Wolf, Patrick J.
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	Moving on Up? A Virtual School, Student Mobility, and Achievement. EdWorkingPaper No. 20-309
Quelle	(2020), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Virtual Schools; Student Mobility; Charter Schools; Academic Achievement; School Effectiveness; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Scores; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Schulleistung; Schuleffizienz; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule
Abstract	Virtual charter schools provide full-time, tuition-free K-12 education through internet-based instruction. Although virtual schools offer a personalized learning experience, most research suggests these schools are negatively associated with achievement. Few studies account for differential rates of student mobility, which may produce biased estimates if mobility is jointly associated with virtual school enrollment and subsequent test scores. We evaluate the effects of a single, large, anonymous virtual charter school on student achievement using a hybrid of exact and nearest-neighbor propensity score matching. Relative to their matched peers, we estimate that virtual students produce marginally worse ELA scores and significantly worse math scores after one year. When controlling for student mobility during the outcome year, estimates of virtual schooling are slightly less negative. These findings may be more reliable indicators of the independent effect of virtual schooling if matching on mobility proxies for otherwise unobservable negative selection factors. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01