Evaluation of the Effect of Tennessee’s Achievement School District on Student Test Scores

Abstract

This brief summarizes the effects of Tennessee’s Achievement School District on students’ academic performance. While the effects across all Priority schools were small but positive, the effects in the 26 iZone schools were positive and moderate to large across all tested subjects. The effects in the ASD schools were mainly indistinguishable from zero, and when significant, those effects were sometimes positive and sometimes negative depending on subject and management organization.

Suggested Citation

Zimmer, R., Kho, A., Henry, G., & Viano, S. (2015). Evaluation of the effect of Tennessee’s Achievement School District on student test scores (Tennessee Education Research Alliance Working Paper.