Vouchers
Overview
- Influence: Vouchers
- Domain: School
- Sub-Domain: School resourcing
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: Availability of school vouchers to parents to use public funding allocated for their child's education to pay for tuition at a private school of their choice
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 42
- Number of students: NA
- Number of effects: 363
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.13
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Shakeel, Anderson, Wolf | The Participant Effects of Private School Vouchers across the Globe: A Meta-Analytic and Systematic Review | 2016 | Vouchers for funding | 19 | NA | 262 | 0.17 | |
| Conference paper | Bennett, Banerjee, Doan, Geib, & Burley | The effect of voucher programs on student achievement: A meta-analysis | 2018 | Vouchers for funding | 23 | NA | 101 | 0.10 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 42 | NA | 363 | 0.14 | |||||