Title: | Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide |
Description: | Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide, from the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), presents findings from an online experiment conducted with 3,500 low-income parents. Each parent viewed one of 72 different web pages displaying information about schools in a hypothetical district. They study examined how variations in the displays affected parents' understanding of the information; perceived ease of use and satisfaction; and which schools they would choose given what was shown. Findings suggest parents generally preferred looking at school information displays that had graphs as well as numbers, more rather than less data, and a list of choices ordered by each school's distance from home. But showing schools ordered by their academic performance made parents more likely to pick a higher performing school for their child. |
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Cover Date: | October 2018 |
Web Release: | October 30, 2018 |
Print Release: | October 30, 2018 |
Publication #: | NCEE 20194003 General Ordering Information |
Center/Program: | NCEE |
Authors: | Steven Glazerman, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jon Valant, and Alyson Burnett |
Type of Product: | Evaluation Report |
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