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The Late Pretest Problem in Randomized Control Trials of Education Interventions

NCEE 2009-4033
October 2008

List of Tables

Table 7.1. Hypothetical Growth Trajectories of Test Score Impacts, by the Number of Months Since the Start of School (Design I)
Table 7.2. Maximum Values of β1 / θ0 for Which the ANCOVA and DID Estimators Would be Preferred to the Posttest-Only and UANCOVA Estimators (Design I)
Table 7.3. Variance, Bias, and MSE Estimates for the ANCOVA and UANCOVA Estimators, For Various Values of β1 / θ0 (Design I)
Table 7.4. School Sample Sizes Needed to Equate MDE Values for the ANCOVA Estimator, by the Size of the Early Treatment Effect (Design I)
Table 7.5. Maximum Values of β1 / θ0 for Which the ANCOVA Estimator Would be Preferred to the Posttest-Only Estimator (Designs II and III)

List of Figures

Figure 7.1. Hypothetical Growth Trajectories of Test Score Impacts (Measured In Standard Deviation Units)