A national megastudy shows that email nudges to elementary school teachers boost student math achievement, particularly when personalized.

ABSTRACT: In response to the alarming recent decline in US math achievement, we conducted a national megastudy in which 140,461 elementary school teachers who collectively taught 2,992,027 students were randomly assigned to receive a variety of behaviorally informed email nudges aimed at improving students' progress in math. Specifically, we partnered with the nonprofit educational platform Zearn Math to compare the impact of 15 different interventions with a reminder-only megastudy control condition. All 16 conditions entailed weekly emails delivered to teachers over 4-wk in the fall of 2021. The best-performing intervention, which encouraged teachers to log into Zearn Math for an updated report on how their students were doing that week, produced a 5.06% increase in students' math progress (3.30%

SUBMITTER: Duckworth AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12002261 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature