New Quick Reviews from the What Works Clearinghouse Added to ERIC

Mar. 01, 2012

Four new What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Quick Reviews of recent research have been added to the ERIC collection:

Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates examines whether winning an admissions lottery for a small school of choice improved high school students' progress toward graduation and graduation rates.
Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study: Findings After the Second Year of Implementation assesses whether a professional development program for seventh-grade mathematics teachers improved the teachers' knowledge of rational number topics and the performance of their students on a rational number test.
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being: Effects by Timing, Dosage, and Subgroups checks out the effect of an early childhood education program on educational attainment by age 28. Outcome domains include on-time high school graduation, high school completion, and college attendance and graduation.
An Interaction-Based Approach to Enhancing Secondary School Instruction and Student Achievement examines the effects of the My Teaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S) professional development program on student achievement.

Quick Reviews present timely and objective assessments of recent studies that examine the effectiveness of an education or school-based program in improving student outcomes. The WWC has produced more than 60 reviews on a wide range of education topics.

The What Works Clearinghouse, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, is a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education. For more information, visit www.ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.