Blog article
Addressing COVID-19’s disruption of student assessment
December 2020
By: Jonathan Schweig, Andrew McEachin, Megan Kuhfeld
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In this Inside IES Research blog, RAND and NWEA researchers share some early findings from their work under an IES grant to develop strategies for schools and districts to address the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on student assessment programs. In the blog, they describe some key findings from surveys and interviews on key concerns of districts and schools arising from the lack of assessment data from spring 2020.
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