Measures of Student Non-Cognitive Skills and Political Tolerance after Two Years of the Louisiana Scholarship Program. Technical Report. Louisiana Scholarship Program Evaluation Report #2

Autor/inn/en	Mills, Jonathan N.; Cheng, Albert; Hitt, Collin E.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Greene, Jay P.
Institution	University of Arkansas, School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP); Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA)
Titel	Measures of Student Non-Cognitive Skills and Political Tolerance after Two Years of the Louisiana Scholarship Program. Technical Report. Louisiana Scholarship Program Evaluation Report #2
Quelle	(2016), (47 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Scholarships; Locus of Control; Political Attitudes; School Choice; Academic Achievement; Democratic Values; Citizen Participation; Measures (Individuals); Self Esteem; Self Control; Telephone Surveys; Personality Traits; Private Schools; Educational Vouchers; Program Evaluation; Self Concept Measures; Educational Assessment; Mathematics Achievement; English Instruction; Language Arts; Regression (Statistics); Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Louisiana (New Orleans); Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarship; Stipendium; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Schulleistung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Messdaten; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Selbstbeherrschung; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Private school; Privatschule; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Sprachkultur; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	This report examines the short-term effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) on students' non-cognitive skills and civic values. While a growing number of studies have evaluated K-12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values. This study aims to address that gap by providing the first analysis of differences in self-reported measures of grit, locus of control, self-esteem, and political tolerance associated with the LSP. Using results from a phone survey of applicants to the program, we find little evidence of differences between LSP scholarship recipients and non-recipients. Nevertheless, diagnostics assessing the precision of our instruments to detect differences between subjects indicate that several of the scales measuring non-cognitive skills performed poorly in our sample. Moreover, our relatively low survey response rate of 11 percent raises concerns about the representativeness of our sample. Given these issues, we caution that our results are best understood as descriptive and not necessarily conclusive: they do not represent reliable estimates of the causal impact of the LSP on student non-cognitive skills and political tolerance. The following are appended: (1) The LSP Scholarship Award Algorithm; and (2) Robustness Check: Experimental Analysis. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	School Choice Demonstration Project. Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, 201 Graduate Education Building, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Tel: 479-575-3172; Fax: 479-575-3196; e-mail: edreform@uark.edu; Web site: http://www.uaedreform.org/school-choice-demonstration-project
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01