ERIC ED518592: Milwaukee Longitudinal School Choice Evaluation pdf

ERIC ED518592: Milwaukee Longitudinal School Choice Evaluation

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The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2009-2010. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this report provide a snapshot of these students’ percentile scores relative to overall national norms, and scaled scores on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examinations (WKCE) relative to the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) free- and reduced-price lunch program (FRL) students. Because national norms are based on students with “average” educational circumstances, and the MPCP exclusively serves low-income inner-city students, the fact that their average levels of performance on norm referenced tests cluster around the lower one-third of the distribution is not surprising and should not be interpreted to indicate that the MPCP in general or MPCP schools in particular are necessarily doing a poor job of educating students.

The comparison of the scaled scores of the Choice students and schools that took the WKCE with the scores of MPS FRL students and schools similarly is presented descriptively with no claim that the schools themselves were independently responsible for the various results. Any reliable determination of the effectiveness of a school choice program like the MPCP can only come from a rigorous longitudinal study that follows a representative group of choice students over time and compares their achievement gains to those of a comparable set of public school students. The MPCP Longitudinal Education Growth Study (LEGS) will serve as the proper source for such a determination. A list of schools with MPCP students in tested grades operation through May 2010 is appended. (Contains 5 tables, 14 figures and 9 footnotes

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2011-03
• Year: 2011
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, School Choice, Lunch Programs, Achievement Gains, Demonstration Programs, Norm Referenced Tests, Program Effectiveness, National Norms, Grade 4, Grade 8, Grade 10, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Achievement Tests, Scores, Low Income, Urban Areas, Comparative Analysis, McShane, Michael Q., Wolf, Patrick J

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