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(Podcast listeners: see figure and text below.)
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This table is drawn from SES Tutoring Programs: An evaluation of year 3 in the Chicago Public Schools, conducted by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and released last February. The horizontal axis identifies the price charged by providers for each student they served. The vertical axis is the average change in the reading component of the Illinios Student Assessment Tests (ISAT) score attributable to their tutoring service.
The table is employed here only for the purpose of illustrating issues raised in the letter from the editor. The providers identified in the figure are from the CPS analysis, but used solely for the purpose of illustration.
The quadrants have been drawn to illustrate how cost effectiveness data might be used. No Child Left Behind Sec. 1116(e)(4) requires state education agencies to remove SES providers that fail to raise student test scores for two consecutive years from this government subsidized consumer tutoring market. By this criteria, the participation of providers below the zero line, like Failure Free Learning, would be terminated.
The vertical line was somewhat arbitraily drawn at $800, a price point suggested by SES evaluator Dr. Steve Ross in comments on a July 1 posting on SES cost-effectiveness in edbizbuzz.com. This line suggests that if the marginal cost of the district’s own AIM High program are truly in the range of $400, it might be worthy of additional investment to improve performance. For the programs priced higher than $800, additional review is required to determine which might achieve some combination of greater effectiveness and lower cost. SCORE! and Education Solutions would seem to be candidates.
One point does seem obvious. None of these providers offer the taxpayer great value, when value is defined as a combination of improved student performance at a reasonable price. Indeed even the best highest price provider, Ed Solutions, is adding very few points to a student’s ISAT score, when passing is 120 and the upper range rarely goes beyond 400. ••••