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ERIC Number: ED589106
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Oct
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
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Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide. Study Highlights. NCEE 2019-4003
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
School choice is expanding, providing both opportunities and challenges for parents seeking information about schools that best fit their children's needs. Federal law now calls for every school to have "understandable" and "user-friendly" report cards. However, there is little evidence-based guidance to help design effective school report cards, school directories, and school choice websites. To address this gap, the Institute of Education Sciences commissioned an online experiment with 3,500 low-income parents. Each parent was assigned to see one of 72 different web pages displaying information for a hypothetical district. All displays included profiles for 16 schools with information about distance from the parent's home, academics, safety, and resources. The study tested how parents' understanding, satisfaction, and choice were affected by differences in the visual representation, amount, and organization of the information. This report presents highlights of the study. [For the full report "Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide. NCEE 2019-4003," see ED589101. For the study snapshot to this report "Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide. Study Snapshot. NCEE 2019-4003," see ED589103.]
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Available from: ED Pubs. P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Tel: 877-433-7827; Web site: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (ED)
IES Funded: Yes
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