The brief summarizes key implementation takeaways from a study of MI Write in grades 7 and 8 English language arts classrooms during the 2021–2022 school year and provides strategies for school and district leaders to support using MI Write.
The brief summarizes key implementation takeaways from a study of Ecree in grade 8–11 English language arts classrooms during the 2021–2022 school year and provides strategies for school and district leaders to support using Ecree.
This summary accompanies a series of briefs summarizing results of the MI Write study by providing more information on the study design, sample, data sources, measures, and analytic methods used to produce the findings reported in those briefs.
This summary accompanies a series of briefs summarizing results of the Ecree study by providing more information on the study design, sample, data sources, measures, and analytic methods used to produce the findings reported in those briefs.
This menu describes a set of teacher- and student-level measures and approaches to understand the extent that writing instruction and interventions change how teachers think about and teach students about writing, and what students know and how they feel about writing.
This tool was created for organizations that want to incorporate the needs and preferences of the communities they intend to reach into their program, practice, or product’s design. It is part of Mathematica’s suite of measurement and evaluation (M&E) tools.
The Prior Research Table is a tool designed to help organizations document previous research on solutions to inform future evaluations.
The Measurement and Evaluation Needs Inventory is a tool designed to assist an organization in conducting a self-assessment of its existing measurement and evaluation capacity, with the goal of identifying priority areas for support from an external research partner.
This brief presents rigorous evidence of the impact of Wayne State University’s Math Corps summer program on student outcomes including college enrollment, college degree completion, and encounters with the criminal justice system.
This memo explores the options for using synthetic control methods to examine the effects of no-deadlines (NDL) approaches using National Science Foundation (NSF) administrative data.
This brief presents the results of a prospective descriptive analysis of the student characteristics and mathematics achievement at the three sites that replicated Wayne State University’s Math Corps, a summer camp for middle school students.
This report synthesizes findings from validation studies of tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) conducted by nine states that received Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.
Community colleges serve as the gateway to career success for many people, yet for many low-income students and students of color, financial and other barriers can derail their efforts to complete a postsecondary credential.
Community colleges serve as the gateway to career success for many people, yet for many low-income students and students of color, financial and other barriers can derail their efforts to complete a postsecondary credential.
This document highlights practices for delivering services to disconnected youth, as identified in the literature scan and described in the study’s Evidence Scan report.
The external review covers a broad range of topics that are relevant to the Job Corps program, including program operations and services.
Online college courses are a rapidly expanding higher education feature, yet little research identifies their effects relative to traditional in-person classes. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that taking a course online, instead of in-person, reduces student success and progress.
We develop and illustrate a general and innovative method for describing in detail the joint distribution of race and income among neighborhoods when only coarse income data are available.