A-ROI Learning
The return on investment learning series will deliver content in three sessions. The first session will introduce the concepts of academic return on investment (A-ROI) and cost-benefit analysis and will explain how A-ROI is helpful to a school district’s budget process. The second session will go over the key steps of the A-ROI process and will cover developing a school district’s theory of action to provide actionable guidance to the budget process in terms of allocating available resources. The third session will be a hands-on exercise where we apply a district’s theory of action, context, and A-ROI to determine how to allocate the balance of ESSER funds to meet the district’s needs in 2024-2025.
Session 1
Resources
- Evidence-Based Repositories
- A-ROI Teaming Note Taker
- A-ROI Data Template
Session 2
Resources
Session 3
Resources
- A-ROI Template R7CC
- Links to resources developed by the Office of Learning Recovery & Acceleration at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction: ESSER Funding Cliff Toolkit – Google Docs
- ROI Worksheet – Google Sheets
Research Studies:
- Summer school: Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth | RAND
- High-dosage tutoring: The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on PreK-12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence | NBER
- Converting effect sizes from standard deviations to percentile points: Multiply by 37: A Surprisingly Accurate Rule of Thumb for Converting Effect Sizes from Standard Deviations to Percentile Points
- A recent report profiling three high-quality tutoring models: Learning Curve – Lessons From the Tutoring Revolution in Public Education | FutureED