Study Methods for Briefs about MI Write Research Findings

This summary provides details about a study of MI Write, an automated writing feedback tool, which took place during the 2021–2022 school year. The MI Write team and an evaluator from the University of Delaware (Joshua Wilson, Ph.D.), with technical assistance from Mathematica, designed and conducted the study to examine teachers’ and students’ use of the tool during the study and the impact of MI Write on student and teacher outcomes. This summary accompanies a series of briefs summarizing results of the MI Write study for different audiences (teachers, students and families, school and district leaders, and tool designers and instructional support teams) by providing more information on the study design, sample, data sources, measures, and analytic methods used to produce the findings reported in those briefs.