Jason Kerwin|Rebecca Thornton
Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
Twin Cities Orthopedics|University of Minnesota|University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
paper demonstrates acute sensitivity education program effectiveness choices inputs outcome measures using randomized evaluation mothertongue literacy program program raises reading scores 064sds writing scores 045sds reducedcost version instead yields statisticallyinsignificant reading gains large negative effects 033sds advanced writing combine conceptual model education production detailed classroom observations examine mechanisms driving results show could driven program initially lowering productivity raising potentially missing complementary inputs reducedcost version