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Xu, Zeyu; Backes, Ben; Oliveira, Amanda; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Kentucky's Targeted Interventions (TI) program is a statewide intervention intended to prepare non-college-ready high school students for college-level coursework. Using a difference-in-regression discontinuity design, we find that TI reduces the likelihood that students enroll in remedial courses by 8 to 10 percentage points in math. These…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, High School Students, College Readiness
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Koedel, Cory; Miller, Luke; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
Using administrative longitudinal data from five states, we study how value-added measures of teacher performance are affected by changes in state standards and assessments. We first document the stability of teachers' value-added rankings during transitions to new standard and assessment regimes and compare our findings to stability during stable…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Predictive Validity