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Does Charter School Attendance Improve Test Scores? |
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
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Lewis Solmon, Ph.D. Goldwater Institute Our main results for reading are that students enrolled in charter schools for two and three consecutive years have an advantage over students staying in the traditional public schools (TPSs) for the same periods of time. Students who enrolled in charter schools for two consecutive years show a 2.35-2.44 extra point advantage over students who stayed in TPSs for two consecutive years.
Similarly, students in charter schools for three consecutive years show an additional 1.31 extra point advantage over students in TPS for 3 consecutive years. Both differences are statistically significant and also imply significant effect sizes given a (within sample) standard deviation compared to those in education production function studies. For mathematics, students in charter schools for two years show a slight advantage over TPS students who stayed for 2 consecutive years. However students in the charter sector for three consecutive years have insignificantly lower gain in math than the corresponding TPS students on average. (Continue reading...) |
