Jason Kerwin|Rebecca Thornton
Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
University of Minnesota|University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
abstract paper demonstrates acute sensitivity education program effectiveness choices inputs outcome measures using randomized evaluation mothertongue literacy program program raises reading scores 064 sd writing scores 045 sd reducedcost version instead yields statistically insignificant reading gains large negative effects 033 sds 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