No statistically significant positive
findings
Meets WWC standards with reservations
For:
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Grant Competition (findings for Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC))
Rating:
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Meets WWC standards with reservations
because it uses a quasi-experimental design in which the analytic intervention and comparison groups satisfy the baseline equivalence requirement.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
General Literacy Achievement outcomes—Indeterminate effect found for the domain
Outcome measure
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Comparison
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Comparison mean
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Improvement index
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Evidence tier
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New York State Assessment: ELA
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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) vs.
Business as usual
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0 Days
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Aggregated sample;
8,108 students
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0.02
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0.00
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No
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New York State Assessment: ELA
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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) vs.
Business as usual
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0 Days
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Cohort 2 middle school sample;
2,570 students
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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New York State Assessment: ELA
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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) vs.
Business as usual
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0 Days
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Cohort 1 returning middle school sample;
3,022 students
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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New York State Assessment: ELA
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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) vs.
Business as usual
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0 Days
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Cohort 2 elementary sample;
2,516 students
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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12%
English language learners
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Female: 51%
Male: 49%
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Race
Asian |
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5% |
Black |
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40% |
Other or unknown |
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49% |
White |
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6% |
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Ethnicity
Hispanic |
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48% |
Not Hispanic or Latino |
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52% |
Setting
This study was conducted in a large, urban school district in New York City. The student outcome analyses included students from 10 LDC and 43 comparison middle schools for the Cohort 1 returning middle schools sample, 14 LDC and 65 comparison elementary schools for the Cohort 2 elementary sample, and 10 LDC and 41 comparison middle schools for the Cohort 2 middle school sample.
Study sample
Sample characteristics were provided separately for each sample. For the Cohort 1 returning middle school sample, just over half were female (54%). Race percentages were 32 percent Black, 10 percent White, 4 percent Asian, and 1 percent other, with 54 percent identifying as Hispanic. The majority (87%) were categorized as having poverty status. About a quarter (24%) were in special education, and 11 percent were English language learners. For the Cohort 2 elementary school sample, just over half were female (52%). Race percentages were 36 percent black, 4 percent white, 3 percent Asian, and 1 percent other, with 56 percent identifying as Hispanic. The majority (86%) were categorized as having poverty status. Almost a quarter (22%) were in special education, and 14 percent were English language learners. For the Cohort 2 middle school sample, just under half were female (48%). Race percentages were 51 percent black, 10 percent Asian, 4 percent white, and 2 percent other, with 34 percent identifying as Hispanic. The majority (81%) were categorized as having poverty status. About a quarter (26%) were in special education, and 13 percent were English language learners.
Intervention Group
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) is a professional development program that aims to develop teacher competencies in embedding literacy skill development throughout content area curriculum. Four main intervention components include (1) a coach-supported Professional Learning Community (PLC) formed to implement the intervention and provide a space for teacher collaboration; (2) asynchronous support from three coaches who provide teachers with feedback; (3) implementation activities completed by participating teachers (e.g., module development and classroom implementation); and (4) leadership support. These four key components are expected to lead to increased teacher skill and expertise, which in turn, may lead to increased student engagement and skill acquisition, higher test scores, and higher rates of course completion.
Comparison Group
The comparison schools conducted business as usual and did not receive the LDC intervention.
Support for implementation
No support for implementation was reported.