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Guides for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) has developed State Education Agency and Local Education Agency Guides for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement which will be...

Florida Center for Reading Research

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RCT-YES

RCT-YES is a free software tool that allows you to easily analyze data and report results on the effectiveness of programs in your context.

Mathematica Policy Research

It’s No Longer All about the Mean: Using Multi-site Trials to Learn About and From Impact Variation

Randomized trials are rapidly becoming standard practice for evaluation research and applied social science. Hundreds, if not thousands of such trials have been conducted and many more are on the...

Stephen Raudenbush and Howard Bloom

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Measuring Instruction in Higher Education: Summary of Convening

What will it take to improve the quality of instruction in higher education? An important first step is the ability to measure quality. A variety of measurement systems exist, but how informative are...

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Research-Practice Partnerships Microsite

Outlining fundamental topics from structuring a partnership to funding and staffing, the site is the culminating project of the Foundation’s learning community of research–practice partnerships,...

Foundation Staff

Designing and Analyzing Studies That Randomize Schools to Estimate Intervention Effects on Student Academic Outcomes without Classroom-Level Information

This MDRC publication provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools—which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in...

Howard Bloom, Pei Zhu, Robin Tepper and Zeyu Xu

Detecting Intervention Effects Across Context: An Examination of the Power of Cluster Randomized Trials

This abstract discusses how to calculate power for three types of treatment heterogeneity including 1) the variability in treatment effects across sites, 2) site-specific treatment effects, and 3)...

Jessaca Spybrook

Improving the Quality of Classroom Interactions

The Foundation has funded several innovative classroom interventions designed to alter settings in ways that result in positive outcomes for the youth within them. In order to change a setting for...

Edward Seidman

An Empirical Investigation of Design Parameters for Planning Cluster Randomized Trials of Science Achievement

Abstract Background Prior research has focused primarily on empirically estimating design parameters for cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) of mathematics and reading achievement. Little is known about...

Jessaca Spybrook, Carl D. Westine and Joseph A. Taylor

From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes

Abstract Everyone who runs a youth program believes in their hearts that their program helps kids – but in their heads, they know they need convincing data to prove it. This guide from the...

The Forum for Youth Investment

Intraclass Correlation Values for Planning Group Randomized Trials in Education

Experiments that assign intact groups to treatment conditions are increasingly common in social research. In educational research, the groups assigned are often schools. The design of group...

Larry Hedges and Eric Hedberg

A Conceptual Framework for Studying the Sources of Variation in Program Effects

Evaluations of public programs in many fields reveal that (1) different types of programs (or different versions of the same program) vary in their effectiveness, (2) a program that is effective for...

Michael Weiss, Howard Bloom and Thomas Brock

Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database

This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Measures of Effective Teaching Project

Studying the Reliability of Group-Level Measures with Implications for Statistical Power: A Six-Step Paradigm

Many youth development programs aim to improve youth outcomes by raising the quality of social interactions occurring in groups such as classrooms, athletic teams, therapy groups, after-school...

Stephen Raudenbush, Andres Martinez, Howard Bloom, Pei Zhu and Fen Lin

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Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

"An extensive body of research has documented the relation between social class, as indexed by socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS), and a host of outcomes, including...

Matthew Diemer, Rashmita Mistry, Martha E. Wadsworth and Irene Lopez

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Optimal Design with Empirical Information (OD+)

This software includes a series of empirical estimates of plausible parameter values for determining the minimum effect size that can be detected by a given number, size, and treatment/group mix of...

Stephen Raudenbush, Howard Bloom, Jessaca Spybrook and Andres Martinez

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Guides for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

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It’s No Longer All about the Mean: Using Multi-site Trials to Learn About and From Impact Variation

Measuring Instruction in Higher Education: Summary of Convening

Research-Practice Partnerships Microsite

Designing and Analyzing Studies That Randomize Schools to Estimate Intervention Effects on Student Academic Outcomes without Classroom-Level Information

Detecting Intervention Effects Across Context: An Examination of the Power of Cluster Randomized Trials

Improving the Quality of Classroom Interactions

An Empirical Investigation of Design Parameters for Planning Cluster Randomized Trials of Science Achievement

From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes

Intraclass Correlation Values for Planning Group Randomized Trials in Education

A Conceptual Framework for Studying the Sources of Variation in Program Effects

Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database

Studying the Reliability of Group-Level Measures with Implications for Statistical Power: A Six-Step Paradigm

Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

Optimal Design with Empirical Information (OD+)

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Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

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