Postdoctoral Research Fellow @bostoncollege @bclynchschool
New York
Joined January 2022
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Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills.
Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills.
1/11
Emma Hart retweeted
Test score gains fade.
But long-term outcomes like graduation and earnings often persist.
So what does that mean for judging school success?
@drewhalbailey joins The Education Gadfly Show to discuss the fadeout effect.
Listen: fordhaminstitute.org/nationa…
Emma Hart retweeted
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @tw_watts, @EmmaRoseHart, & @drewhalbailey analyze 87 RCTs to assess persistence of educational intervention effects & find that fadeout is common. Intervention characteristics explain a small share of differences in persistence.
📄 bit.ly/4aGrXY4
Emma Hart retweeted
"So, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot regularly argue for education investments on the expectation that they will produce positive long-lasting effects, then act as if fadeout was inevitable all along when we observe it." bit.ly/3OaOdAJ
Why do educational intervention impacts fade? Isn't catch-up a good thing? Are sleeper effects real? Does fadeout mean failure?
@drewhalbailey, @tw_watts, and I address these questions & more in an EdNext piece & 4 new working papers!
educationnext.org/why-do-mos…
Working paper #4
Across Head Start RCT clusters, we observed 40% persistence for cog skills, 20% for soc-emo skills @ 1yr follow-up. We found some (but not stat sig) support for transfer processes from effects on cog skills to effects on soc skills.
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-136…
Shoutout to the larger team who collaborated on these projects: @CarolineBotvin, Casey Moran, @skruglnska, @shiramattera, Doug Clements, Julie Sarama, Dale Farran, and Mark Lipsey.
Emma Hart retweeted
Our new review, with @tw_watts, @EmmaRoseHart, and April Yu, summarizing some recent work on "Learning about Development from Interventions" is published open access at Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. Comments, questions, insults welcome.
annualreviews.org/content/jo…
I have absolutely loved working on this project over the past 4 years with @tw_watts, @drewhalbailey, @prithasengupta_, & Sha Luo. Our MERF data is posted for public use on @LDbaseRepo. We have several projects using MERF in the works so stay tuned!
10/11
Finally, I am currently on the job market to continue studying the causal effects of early skills and contexts on later development! More information about my work here: emmarosehart.com.
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