Empowering educators
Assessment data can be an important tool for educators to inform instruction and support student learning. Our research seeks to improve reporting and support data-informed decision making.
A Practical Guide for Considering and Interpreting Test Score Differences Among Student SubgroupsĀ
This guide offers recommendations for how to understand what differences may exist when looking at data for student groups, and gives leaders some structure for how they might consider and interpret those differences.
Products: MAP Growth
Topics: Empowering educators, Equity, Growth, Guidance
MAP Growth Goal Explorer Userās Guide and FAQ
This userās guide for the MAP Growth Goal Explorer describes how to use this interactive tool, the benchmarks it uses to provide context on student growth goals, a framework for goal setting, instructions for how to download information from the tool, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Topics: Innovations in reporting & assessment, Empowering educators
MAP Reading Fluency with Coach Evidence Base
This document provides an overview of the research underlying MAP Reading Fluency with Coachās AI-powered intelligent reading tutor and the research on key elements of early literacy instruction. It describes the components of the MAP Reading Fluency with Coach pedagogy and the research base supporting each component.
By: Amy Endo
Products: MAP Reading Fluency
Topics: Early learning, Empowering educators, Innovations in reporting & assessment, Reading & language arts
District and school leadersā perspectives on leading & learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
This report captures the perspectives of district, school, and teacher leaders (hereafter referred to as ālocal leadersā) to surface best practices for supporting student learning during COVID-19.
By: Hayley Weddle, Ayesha K. Hashim, Ogechi Irondi
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators
The instructional legacy of COVID-19: Teacher adaptation in response to the pandemic
This study investigated teacher adaptation to the changes in teaching conditions caused by the transition to distance learning in the COVID-19 pandemic.
By: Helena Connolly, Naina Abowd, Catherine C. Chase
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators
Family perceptions of participating in a structured summer kindergarten transition program
Researchers interviewed parents whose children participated in a three-week structured kindergarten transition program designed to promote parental involvement in school, reduce studentsā chronic absenteeism, and increase childrenās readiness for kindergarten. Interviewees expressed that participating in the program yielded benefits for themselves and their children, and proposed various ways that adjusting the program could better meet the needs of all stakeholders. Parent suggestions were synthesized into multiple implications for practice and substantiated by current relevant literature.
By: Christopher Merideth, Beth Cavanaugh, Sue Romas, Nicole Ralston, Eva Arias, Beth Tarasawa, Jacqueline Waggoner
Topics: Early learning, Empowering educators
A “Lost Year” of Data? What Disruptions From COVID-19 Mean For Education Research
This Bellwether Education Partners webinar examines how education research can continue to offer meaningful, relevant information to policymakers and practitioners after the ālost yearā of data from COVID disruptions to schools and testing.
By: Matthew Soldner, Megan Kuhfeld, Dan Goldhaber, Constance Lindsay, Allison Crean Davis
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators, Measurement & scaling