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Table of Contents and Lists of Tables
and Exhibits
Chapter 1 Introduction and Background
to the Study
1.1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Description of Edison Schools Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 Description of Edison’s Evaluation and Assessment
Activities . . . . . 8
1.4 Overview of the Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2 Methodology and Related
Issues
2.1 Aims and Objective of the Evaluation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Sources of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3
To Compare or Not to Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4 Statistical Methods Utilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.5 Criteria for Evaluating Trends and Summarizing Results for Each Case . 22
2.6 Limitations of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 25
Chapter 3 Roosevelt-Edison
Charter School, Colorado Springs, CO
3.1 Descriptive Summary of
School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2 Past Studies and Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.3 Longitudinal
Analysis of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.4 Chi-Square Analysis of CSAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.5 Odds Ratio Analysis of the CSAP Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.6
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 4 Henry E. S. Reeves Elementary,
Miami-Dade County, FL
4.1 Descriptive Summary of
School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.2 Past
Studies and Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 49
4.3 Summary of
Findings by the Miami-Dade County Public School District . 49
4.4 Longitudinal Student Outcomes: The
Shay Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.5 Performance on the FCAT and Florida Writes State Assessments . . .
. . 53
4.6 Chi-Square Analysis of FCAT Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.7 Odds Ratio Analysis of the FCAT Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 61
Chapter 5 Dodge-Edison Elementary,
Wichita, KS
5.1 Descriptive Summary of School
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Data Available for
Analysis . . . . . 64
5.3 Longitudinal Analysis
of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.4 Comparison with District on the MAT-7 . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.5 Comparison with District and State on Kansas Assessments .
. . . . . . 73
5.6
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter 6 Jardine-Edison Junior
Academy, Wichita, KS
6.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Data Available
for Analysis . . . . . 80
6.3 Comparison with District on the MAT-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6.4 Comparison with District and State on Kansas Assessments . . . . . . . 84
6.5 Summary . . . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 7 Boston Renaissance
Charter School, Boston, MA
7.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Data Available for Analysis . . . . . 91
7.3 Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7.4 Chi-Square Analysis of MCAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
7.5
Odds Ratio Analysis of the MCAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
7.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Chapter 8 Seven Hills Charter
School, Worcester, MA
8.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
8.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Data Available for Analysis . . . . 122
8.3 Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . 123
8.4 Chi-Square Analysis of MCAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
8.5 Odds Ratio Analysis of the MCAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
8.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 9 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Academy, Mount Clemens, MI
9.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
9.2 Past Studies and Evaluation and Data Available for Analysis . . . . 148
9.3 Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . 149
9.4 Chi-Square Analysis of MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
9.5
Odds Ratio Analysis of the MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.6 Overall Performance on the MEAP Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
9.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 167
Chapter 10 Mt. Clemens Secondary
Academies, Mt. Clemens, MI
10.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
10.2 Data Available for Our Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
10.3 Chi-Square Analysis of MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
10.4 Odds Ratio Analysis of the MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
10.5 Overall Performance on the MEAP Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
10.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 186
Chapter 11 Mid-Michigan
Public School Academy, Lansing, MI
11.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
11.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Currently Available Data . . . . . 189
11.3 Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Student Data . . . . . . . . . 190
11.4 Chi-Square Analysis of MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
11.5 Odds Ratio Analysis of the MEAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
11.6 Overall Performance on the MEAP Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
11.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 214
Chapter 12 Washington Elementary
School, Sherman, TX
12.1 Descriptive Summary of School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
12.2 Past Studies and Evaluations and Available Test Data . . . . . . . 220
12.3 Analysis of Texas Assessment of Academic Skills Results . . . . . . 221
12.4 Comparable Growth on the
TAAS Based on Consecutive Class Cohorts . 227
12.5 Comparable Improvement Results Based on Individual
Students’ Gains
on the Texas Learning Index . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
12.6 Chi-Square Analysis of TAAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
12.7 Odds Ratio Analysis of the TAAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
12.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Chapter 13 Summary of the Findings
13.1 Edison’s Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
246
13.2 Evaluation Center Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
13.3 Comparison Between Edison’s Findings and The Evaluation
Center’s
Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 253
13.4 Recommendations Based on the Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
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