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 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.
Phase 3 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to conduct a small pilot study and demonstrate that a solution is associated with improved outcomes for students in a priority community.
Phase 2 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to refine a solution based on lessons learned during implementation. By following these steps, users will develop descriptive evidence that the refined solution was successfully implemented in a priority community.
Phase 4 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to conduct a large pilot study and demonstrate with a high degree of confidence that a solution leads to improved outcomes for students in a priority community.
The Prior Research Table is a tool designed to help organizations document previous research on solutions to inform future evaluations.
The Measurement and Evaluation Template is a road map organizations and funders can use to develop a detailed measurement and evaluation plan with support from a research partner.
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.
Organizations, research partners, and funders can use the Measurement and Evaluation Reporting Template to summarize and share findings from a study.
Phase 1 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the process of co-designing a solution with a partner and developing a well-defined theory of change for how that solution is expected to improve outcomes for students in a priority community.
An evidence-based, field-driven framework that establishes a common set of metrics and data equity principles for assessing and addressing disparities along the pre-K-to-workforce continuum.
This issue brief summarizes instructional skills and practices that support improvements in student writing for students in grades 6-12. The findings and conclusions presented are based on an academic literature scan that Mathematica conducted in partnership with teacher development experts.
This brief shares insights from the Colorado Department of Human Services and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families on how youth-serving organizations can use housing vouchers to support youth and young adults with previous child welfare system involvement and are at risk of homelessness....
This set of tables presents national information from a study conducted by the National Center for Education Evaluation (NCEE).
Employment social enterprises (ESEs) provide temporary work and a supported work environment to reduce employment barriers and generate program revenue.
This brief describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve.
This report describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve. It focuses on the nine states that received the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants.
This study seeks to inform decisions about the selection and use of teacher observation instruments using data from the Measures of Effective Teaching project.
This report describes grantees’ experiences and short-term outcomes during the implementation phase of the Family Engagement Impact Project (FEIP). It also presents recommendations for others interested in leveraging public-private partnerships in support of family engagement.
Employment social enterprises incorporate a business mission of financial viability into a transitional jobs model structured to help individuals with employment barriers gain unsupported employment.
Services such as the National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker for High Schools provide states, districts, and schools with the capability to examine college enrollment, persistence, and completion data on students they previously served in K–12 settings.
This master data collection protocol describes the data that Mathematica collected for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Study of Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. This study was conducted for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.