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Alison Black
Researcher at MDRC
Publications - 15
Citations - 1940
Alison Black is an academic researcher from MDRC. The author has contributed to research in topics: Disability benefits & Academic achievement. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1764 citations.
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Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes in Research
TL;DR: This article developed empirical benchmarks of comparison that reflect the nature of the intervention being evaluated, its target population, and the outcome measure or measures being used to assess effect size measures for educational interventions designed to improve student academic achievement.
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Performance Trajectories and Performance Gaps as Achievement Effect-Size Benchmarks for Educational Interventions
TL;DR: In this paper, two complementary approaches to developing empirical benchmarks for achievement effect sizes in educational interventions are explored, characterizing the natural developmental progress in achievement made by students from one year to the next as effect sizes.
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Using Covariates to Improve Precision for Studies that Randomize Schools to Evaluate Educational Interventions.
TL;DR: This article examined how controlling statistically for baseline covariates, especially pretests, improves the precision of studies that randomize schools to measure the impacts of educational inte... and showed that the effect of pretests on the performance of randomization studies can be significant.