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Originally Posted by penguinfrk
This suggests that whether or not students are on the team has no bearing on the fact that the presence of FIRST programs (or, at least FRC) enhances the educational environment of the schools.
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Do you have any data on the scores before FRC? Could the presence of FRC not be the cause of this correlation, instead could the correlation be the result of schools that were already committed to Science (and therefore likely to have better test scores anyway) being more likely to start FRC teams. This would seem especially likely if the scores have not changed much since the teams were started. Though if you can show the scores went up since then your point makes more sense.