An Analysis of the Effects of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement

Autor/inn/en	Egalite, Anna J.; Stallings, D. T.; Porter, Stephen R.
Titel	An Analysis of the Effects of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 6 (2020) 1, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Educational Vouchers; State Aid; State Programs; Private Schools; Public Schools; Program Effectiveness; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Standardized Tests; Low Income Students; Elementary Secondary Education; North Carolina; Iowa Tests of Basic Skills; TerraNova Multiple Assessments; Stanford Achievement Tests; California Achievement Tests; Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test; North Carolina End of Course Testing Program + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Regierungsprogramm; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test
Abstract	The North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program is a private school voucher program that provides state-funded vouchers worth up to $4,200 to eligible students entering kindergarten through 12th grade. Because the public and private school sectors administer different assessments, we recruited approximately 700 students to take a common, nationally normed, standardized test. Matching on baseline achievement and rich demographic data, we use a quasi-experimental inverse propensity weighting approach to maximize comparability between the public and private school student samples. Our preferred specification examines first-year effects for new Opportunity Scholarship students, revealing positive estimates of 0.36 SD in math and 0.44 SD in language; there is no effect on reading scores. Results for renewal students are statistically significant in language scores only. In further analyses, we estimate separate effects for private schools that regularly administer another version of the assessment used in this study, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. We conclude by discussing policy implications. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01