First Article

The first article I reviewed for my thesis was “Examining charter school achievement effects across seven states” by Zimmer et al (2012). This study was very complex and technical and at times quite difficult to follow. That being said, it was also one of the most comprehensive studies I have seen that attempts to answer the question of charter school effectiveness.  While his study did not look at specific factors that may account for the effective school, it was a large study that looked critically at its own data in terms of the accuracy of the assumptions associated with conducting a fixed effect model of student testing data. I found this study very interesting as a baseline for the research that is available to date but will focus more on the individual factors that have an influence of the effectiveness of  charter school as I conduct more research.