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1/A parable on "implementation challenges" in education, in this case an intensive tutoring program in Atlanta to help struggling schools, per a Mathematica study https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/cms/lib/GA01000924/Centricity/Domain/11375/Year%201-APS%20Turnaround%20Report%202017.pdf …pic.twitter.com/pUsLWQnmrm
2/The first thing to note is that there *is* good research https://www.the74million.org/article/what-if-every-struggling-student-had-a-tutor-it-wont-be-cheap-but-it-might-be-worth-it/ … backing in-school tutoring models, but Atlanta approach was notably different.
3/In Atlanta there was 5:1 student:tutor ratio with tech for half an hour vs. 2:1 for an hour in a successful study in Chicago.pic.twitter.com/L2HLoH0NW1
4/So how did this 5:1 tutoring model — still a very small group! — work in Atlanta? Well, one problem was that tutors were hired late and so tutoring started months into the school year.pic.twitter.com/1C13IDrvLw
5/The next problem was, oops, many of the tutored struggled to even log-in to the online interfacepic.twitter.com/ygM8r3Q4uC
6/Then there was the issue of turnover — both among students and among tutoring staff, making it really difficult for the initiative to gain traction.pic.twitter.com/e0xjKDR2MQ
7/And remember these were turnaround schools, which meant they faced an onslaught of initiatives. Problem: There wasn't enough time for all of them!pic.twitter.com/NJk3TTiSTl
8/In response some moved to an after-school model...which created the obvious problem of getting students to show up.pic.twitter.com/F3AUwnuheE
9/And tutors were pulled in a bunch of different directions. Should they listen to their school's principal or the company that employed them?pic.twitter.com/vlcUsZKsud
10/Okay...let's go to the data. Did the tutoring program work to improve test scores? You won't be surprised to learn the results were disappointing. No significant effects and the estimates are actually negative.pic.twitter.com/7hpMs8o2vF
11/That doesn't mean the initiative was a complete failure. Tests are one measure and there was some indication that the tutors built positive relationships with students.pic.twitter.com/4rUx82WRCl
12/Important-but-not-particularly novel takeaways: Schools are messy, human enterprises and importing even truly "research-based" practices will likely prove challenging.
13/These research-based practices are often based on the best-case-scenario, top-of-the-line, most-expensive model. What actually gets scaled may be cheaper and a lot less likely to work.
14/14 'Implementation challenges' are sometimes a stand-in for 'my big idea didn't work' or 'teachers hated it.' I think it would be helpful to be a lot more concrete about what we're talking about when we use that phrase.
And you can read the full study I'm referring to here https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/cms/lib/GA01000924/Centricity/Domain/11375/Year%201-APS%20Turnaround%20Report%202017.pdf …
What's low impact tutoring
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