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Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Elizabeth Setren (author); Kyle Greenberg (author); Oliver Moore (author); Michael Yankovich (author)
Genre:: grey literature
Subject:: flipped classroom; education technology; achievement gap; higher education; Post-secondary education; Inequality; Program and policy effects; Race, ethnicity and culture; Standards, accountability, assessment, and curriculum

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Abstract:: 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.

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Elizabeth Setren, Kyle Greenberg, Oliver Moore, et al., "Effects of the Flipped Classroom: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" (2019). EdWorkingPapers.com Archive. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:956595/

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Effects of the Flipped Classroom: Evidence from a Randomized Trial