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| Pub Number | Title |  Date |
|---|---|---|
| NCES 2009317 | 1999-2000 SASS & 2000-01 TFS CD-ROM: Electronic Codebook and Restricted-Use Data
Restricted-use data files for the 1999-2000 SASS and the 2000-01 Teacher Follow-up Survey. The data are in ASCII format and can be exported into SAS or SPSS formats. Also included is software for variable searching, displaying variable frequencies and coding, plus survey documentation and record layouts. |
12/4/2008 |
| WWC QRLA0808 | WWC Quick Review of the Report "Charter School Performance in Los Angeles Unified School District: A District and Neighborhood Matched Comparison Analysis"
The study examined whether charter schools have higher growth in student achievement than traditional public schools. |
8/7/2008 |
| WWC QRSI0808 | WWC Quick Review of the Manuscript "Paying for A's: An Early Exploration of Student Reward and Incentive Programs in Charter Schools"
This study examined whether offering student reward and incentive programs in charter schools affects academic achievement. |
8/7/2008 |
| NCEE 20084023 | Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Two Years
The DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 established the first federally funded private school voucher program in the United States, providing scholarships of up to $7,500 for low-income residents of the District of Columbia to send their children to local participating private schools. The law also mandated that the Department conduct an independent, rigorous impact evaluation of what is now called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The study's latest report, Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Two Years, found no significant differences in student achievement between those who were offered scholarships to attend a participating private school and those who were eligible for, but were not offered (as assigned by a lottery) a scholarship. However, being offered a scholarship may have improved reading test scores among three subgroups of relatively more advantaged students: those who had not attended a School in Need of Improvement (SINI) school when they applied to the program, those who had relatively higher pre-program academic performance, and those who applied in the first year of program implementation. Students in the program did not report being more satisfied or feeling safer than those who were not in the program. However, the program did have a positive impact on parent satisfaction and perceptions of school safety. This same pattern of findings holds when the analysis is conducted to determine the impact of using a scholarship rather than being offered a scholarship and when estimating the effects of attending private school versus public school, regardless of whether an Opportunity Scholarship Program scholarship was used. |
6/16/2008 |
| NCEE 20074009 | Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After One Year
The DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 established the first federally funded private school voucher program in the United States, providing scholarships of up to $7,500 for low-income residents of the District of Columbia to send their children to local participating private schools. The law also mandated that the Department conduct an independent, rigorous evaluation of what is now called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), to assess the impact of the program on academic achievement, school safety, and other outcomes. The impact evaluation is a randomized controlled trial that compares outcomes of eligible public school applicants randomly assigned to receive or not receive a scholarship through a series of lotteries. |
6/21/2007 |
| NCES 2007313 | 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) CD-ROM: Restricted-Use Data with Electronic Codebook
This CD-ROM contains the restricted-use data files for the 2003-04 SASS. There is an electronic codebook for ease of searching for variables. In addition, it is possible to download some or all of the data into SAS, SPSS, STATA, or ASCII formats. The complete survey documentation report is also included in this CD. |
3/8/2007 |
| NCES 2006460 | A Closer Look at Charter Schools Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
A special over sample of charter schools, conducted as part of the 2003 fourth-grade NAEP assessments, permitted a comparison of academic achievement for students enrolled in charter schools to that for students enrolled in traditional public schools. The school sample comprised 150 charter schools and 6,764 traditional public schools. The report uses hierarchical linear models (HLMs) to examine differences between the two types of schools when multiple student and/or school characteristics are taken into account. After adjusting for student demographic characteristics, charter school mean scores in reading and mathematics were lower, on average, than those for traditional public schools. The size of these differences was smaller in reading than in mathematics. Results from the second analysis showed that in reading and mathematics, average performance differences between traditional public schools and charter schools affiliated with a public school district were not statistically significant, while charter schools not affiliated with a public school district scored significantly lower on average than traditional public schools. |
8/22/2006 |
| NCEE DCOSP05 | Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship
Program: First Year Report on Participation
The District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 was passed by Congress in January 2004. The Act provided funds for District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) improvement activities and charter school facility acquisitions. Most notably, the statute established what is now called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program—the first federal government initiative to provide K-12 education scholarships, or vouchers, to families to send their children to private schools of choice. |
5/6/2006 |
| NCEE 20064003 | Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Second Year Report on Participation
On May 5, 2006, NCEE released the congressionally mandated Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Second Year Report on Participation. The report updates information from the April 2005 report to Congress on the schools and students who applied to and became participants in the program over the first two years of implementation. |
5/5/2006 |
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