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MIT SEII | School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative -- Skip to content Home Research Discussion Papers In the News About Us Partners Stay informed New Findings back next -- Extending the Race between Education and Technology The race between edu­ca­tion and tech­nol­o­gy pro­vides a canon­i­cal frame­work that does an excel­lent job of explain­ing US wage struc­ture changes across the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. The frame­work involves sec­u­lar increas­es in the demand for more-edu­­cat­ed work­ers from skill-biased tech­no­log­i­cal change, com­bined with vari­a­tions in the sup­ply of skills from changes in edu­ca­tion­al access. We expand […] More... Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? School choice may lead to improve­ments in school pro­duc­tiv­i­ty if par­ents’ choic­es reward effec­tive schools and pun­ish inef­fec­tive ones. This mech­a­nism requires par­ents to choose schools based on causal effec­tive­ness rather than peer char­ac­ter­is­tics. We study rela­tion­ships among par­ent pref­er­ences, peer qual­i­ty, and causal effects on out­comes for appli­cants to New York City’s cen­tral­ized high […] More... Effects of the Flipped Classroom: Evidence from a Randomized Trial In a flipped class­room, an increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar ped­a­gog­i­cal mod­el, stu­dents view a video lec­ture at home and work on exer­cis­es with the instruc­tor dur­ing class time. Advocates of the flipped class­room claim the prac­tice not only improves stu­dent achieve­ment, but also ame­lio­rates the achieve­ment gap. We con­duct a ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al at West Point and find that the flipped class­room pro­duced short term gains in Math and no effect in Economics, but that the flipped mod­el broad­ened the achieve­ment gap: effects are dri­ven by white, male, and high­er achiev­ing stu­dents. We find no long term aver­age effects on stu­dent learn­ing, but the widened achieve­ment gap per­sists. Our find­ings demon­strate fea­si­bil­i­ty for the flipped class­room to induce short term gains in stu­dent learn­ing; how­ev­er, the exac­er­ba­tion of the achieve­ment gap, the effect fade-out, and the null effects in Economics sug­gest that edu­ca­tors should exer­cise cau­tion when con­sid­er­ing the mod­el. More... Headlines Three Takeaways From Chicago’s Largest Charter School Network Education Writers Association SEII’s Joshua Angrist and Sarah Cohodes Make 2020 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Ratings Education Week 14 Charts that Changed the Way We Look at Schools in 2019 Seventy Four The Accidental Experiment That Changed Men’s Lives Atlantic More... Our Mission Meet the Team Strengthening schools and skills through research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics 50 Memorial Drive E52-391 Cambridge, MA 02142 Email: seiiadmin@mit.edu | Sitemap SUPPORT SEII...