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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

School choice

Overview

  • Influence: School choice
  • Domain: School
  • Sub-Domain: School compositional effects
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
  • Influence Definition: School choice is premised on the belief that parents should have control over the kind of school their child attends, often via the use of vouchers: government funding that can be withdrawn from a particular public school and follow a child to a charter school or academy.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 1
  • Number of studies: 22
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 28
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.02
  • Robustness index: 1

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Conference paper Jabbar, Fong, Germain, Li, Sanchez, Sun, & Devall USA The competitive effects of school choice on student outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis 2017 School choice 22 0 28 0.02
TOTAL/AVERAGE 22 0 28 0.02
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