Browsing by Author "Slavin, Robert E."
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Can Financial Incentives Enhance Educational Outcomes? Evidence from International Experiments
Slavin, Robert E. (BEE, 2009-02)In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in financial incentives to encourage students to attend school and to improve their academic achievement, graduation rates, and other outcomes. Conditional cash transfer ... -
Effective Early Childhood Education Programmes : A Systematic Review
Chambers, Bette; Cheung, Alan; Slavin, Robert E.; Smith, Dewi; Laurenzano, Mary (Best Evidence Encyclopaedia, 2010)This report systematically reviews research on the outcomes of programmes that teach young children in a group setting before they begin reception. Study inclusion criteria included use of randomised or matched control ... -
Reading and Language Outcomes of a Five-Year Randomized Evaluation of Transitional Bilingual Education
Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy; Calderón, Margarita; Chamberlain, Anne; Hennessy, Megan (BEE, 2010-01)This paper reports the fifth-year results of a study comparing the English and Spanish language and reading performance of Spanish-dominant children randomly assigned beginning in kindergarten to Transitional Bilingual ...