Title page
Contents
Summary 3
Why this study? 6
What the study examined 8
What the study found 11
Implications of the study findings 12
Limitations of the study 14
Appendix A. Literature review 16
Appendix B. Literature review process, data, and methodology 22
Appendix C. Characteristics of New Orleans charter schools and Louisiana public schools 31
Appendix D. Detailed results 34
References 38
Table 1. Association of potential indicators of effectiveness of New Orleans public charter schools with English language arts, math, and science value-added measure scores, 2012/13 (unstandardized regression coefficient estimates) 11
Boxes
Box 1. Potential indicators of charter school effectiveness identified in the research and used in the current study 7
Box 2. Key terms 9
Box 3. Data sources and research methods 10
Table B1. Variables included in the current study of potential indicators of the effectiveness of New Orleans charter schools, 2012/13 25
Table B2. Descriptive statistics for analytic sample of open-enrollment charter schools in New Orleans with at least some value-added measure data in 2012/13 27
Table B3. Size and composition of study samples of New Orleans charter schools in 2012/13 28
Table C1. Descriptive statistics for the census of 2012/13 New Orleans public charter school campuses, 2012/13 31
Table C2. Comparison of New Orleans public charter schools and state public schools on selected characteristics, 2012/13 33
Table D1. Association of potential indicators of effectiveness in New Orleans public charter schools for English language arts value-added measure, 2012/13 (unstandardized regression coefficient estimates) 34
Table D2. Association of potential indicators of effectiveness in New Orleans public charter schools for math value-added measure, 2012/13 (unstandardized regression coefficient estimates) 35
Table D3. Association of potential indicators of effectiveness in New Orleans public charter schools for science value-added measure, 2012/13 (unstandardized regression coefficient estimates) 36
Figure B1. The most common methodology applied in the 58 studies reviewed was nonexperimental quantitative analysis 23