Investigating Patterns of Fadeout using MERF

Date of Seminar: May 17, 2024 Speaker: Emma Hart, Doctoral Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University Description: Researchers and policymakers aspire for educational interventions to change children’s long-run developmental trajectories. Developmental theory has informed this expectation; boosts to child skills should initiate developmental cascades consistent with long-run intervention effects. Increasing evidence suggests that while interventions often generate impacts on child skills at post-test, these effects commonly fade in the years following the intervention’s end. In this talk, I will present new work that uses meta-analysis to investigate the breadth of fadeout by skill type and intervention characteristics. I will discuss using meta-analysis to test developmental theory and inform policy decision-making.