Charter schools are publicly funded, but can be privately run, and often
admit students via lottery.
All charter schools are required to
admit students via a lottery - no admissions testing is permitted.
Because the oversubscribed charter schools in our sample
admit students via random lotteries, comparing the outcomes of lottery winners (most of whom enrolled in a charter school) and lottery losers (most of whom did not) is akin to a randomized - control trial of the kind often used in medical research.
Noble Street College Prep
admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.
Not exact matches
Because the
students in this pool of applications differ (on average) only in where they were offered a place, researchers can make apples - to - apples comparisons to see how the
students who are
admitted via lottery perform, compared to those who were not
admitted.
The final evaluation found being
admitted to a KIPP middle school
via a lottery leads to significant improvement in
students» average math and reading scores after two years.
Students are
admitted into the College of Veterinary Medicine program by applying to the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and to the graduate program
via application to the Biomedical Sciences graduate program through Auburn University Graduate School (GS).