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Field Trial Status | Before on_going | After completed |
Field Last Published | Before December 28, 2013 04:20 PM | After January 19, 2024 04:31 PM |
Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After June 15, 2013 |
Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 156 classrooms |
Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 1,182 students with math test scores 2,123 students with reading test scores |
Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 66 TFA classrooms, 90 comparison classrooms |
Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
Field Program Files | Before | After No |
Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After June 15, 2013 |
Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
Field Keyword(s) | Before Education | After Education |
Field First registered on | Before | After December 28, 2013 |
Field Building on Existing Work | Before | After No |
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Field Paper Abstract | Before | After In 2010, Teach For America (TFA) launched a major expansion effort, funded in part by a five-year Investing in Innovation scale-up grant from the U.S. Department of Education. To examine the effectiveness of TFA elementary school teachers in the second year of the scale-up, we recruited thirty-six schools from ten states and randomly assigned students in participating schools to a class taught by a TFA teacher or a class taught by a comparison teacher. We then gathered data on student achievement and surveyed teachers on their educational background, preparation for teaching, and teaching experience. The TFA teachers in the study schools had substantially less teaching experience than comparison teachers but were more likely to have graduated from a selective college. Overall, TFA and comparison teachers in the study were similarly effective in teaching both reading and math. TFA teachers in early elementary classrooms (grades 2 and below), however, were more effective than comparison teachers: TFA teachers in prekindergarten through grade 2 had a positive, statistically significant effect of 0.12 standard deviations on students’ reading achievement, and TFA teachers in grades 1 and 2 had a positive, marginally significant effect of 0.16 standard deviations on student math achievement. |
Field Paper Citation | Before | After Melissa A. Clark & Eric Isenberg, 2020. "Do Teach For America Corps Members Still Improve Student Achievement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Teach For America's Scale-Up Effort," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 15(4), pages 736-760, Fall. |
Field Paper URL | Before | After https://watermark.silverchair.com/edfp_a_00311.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA1UwggNRBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggNCMIIDPgIBADCCAzcGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMV9bK6eo3LblDgusCAgEQgIIDCDcnBSDQNOb929saQp3xE8L-1FBXQap1vSy1rAMGK3guLFRZlRCnsctWwIt2LOEx2BB6g8vgFUZxsQmPyVegxuoZM1YjvhTrKH0n31oUK8tfzOJYgpcRyLFfur3HjB-oc7TOOtyA6r5kwXimrI-_1pV5uWDQ9UY1Rk7vE8cWW6calNxBsVPskgb3sSlZL01B1AOE-snByBk9Ticx0khEokvd8BDJEVE34OvpfiHYLpmXszm3seGdHQEp5YSmVOUMBgQR6nqLqkQlHPnMlQNM9pHebPaV6fuBQnhOZ4ltAdbIQXOxmW0maerj65sHireiNgqd3fsNf2xOywDkKaDZvYKvU_yaCI_j3WWifVyzfZuGCuhRi8dibZ2yYYhWKyZTD9FBLt0vRyh_oseRUdXebbuyrSKAqc1nceY97WHd_gggBvEMNiHN6n8PAwbhvn_cqNGkO6-bGpPeHPRGUzllyX4kXglacrDRhXoJVGBy93g-fCh7zHUliZSKRisVak4tIlbWCMpDKcDCDZWpew36Yl3OYjOjkFmoi3vidSYMwbNkza_iWCPMr9gZYjgXmnz37BM-72oxsYdfn4h6n4QBnzOJ-MnNE9u94EzROojy8zHCTlEXlXS2YpAIKa7I8VohJJXTIZDhMIBvSQgjlH0l3kcOwTp8mu5YoohFt2Vkz10tyftPGLKmYAzIoMa4euArsGTZDkfYcyhOUSZYDydvFAiR6mPaoMHoAUEUj-RwG2Qto45Kqz6SDOMQucx8WPwgScAW-NddmHJRC8Qwsoija5oX1TdooNoCjrNrKKhGLKqPDQuvtDMV3ekyw9aAD1wKqvTR0vagNMiK4ze9-T2xRIe4NVGNkBshVIkUh_Ae29uY9pS1_miagsgaWJifZ7NqaxLrKAsVr6xtu9vCp6F-BAYujDKfCG16cvEAhgN4TrRjN60J66EQ5pqJ-UM1UZIzzN_wlcoCRK0ZZPx2LL9lj0fRi2L5ejQcCojdy81-Sje_zLNWESuk-BQFAE25BEErTz16eIqrxqzn |