Students of Teach For America teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests, and matched their average performance in reading, according to the findings from the first national evaluation of the impact of TFA teachers on student learning. The large-scale random assignment study,...

Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

Students of Teach For America teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests, and matched their average performance in reading, according to the findings from the first national evaluation of the impact of TFA teachers on student learning. The large-scale random assignment study,...

Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

This report lays out the design for the Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions, which is assessing supplemental reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students.

Reports initial findings from a synthesis and reanalysis of all available evidence on whether quasi-experimental evaluation designs produced unbiased estimates of the impacts of education, training, and welfare programs. This methodological paper tries to understand conditions under which...

This pamphlet, prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences, describes the purpose of education program evaluation, defines random assignment and discusses its advantages over other approaches, and looks at other issues related to use of random assignment in scientifically based education...

This final report on the national evaluation examines program implementation and effects of workplace literacy, finding that it is possible to implement and institutionalize effective programs, but doing so presents challenges for employers, program leaders, and policymakers.