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Pablo Araya Cortés; Cristian Macías Domínguez; Luis Pires Jiménez; Rosa Santero Sánchez; Ismael Sanz Labrador – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This article examines the impact of within-class age differences on educational outcomes, using students' birth months in Madrid's primary schools as a natural experiment. Employing a regression discontinuity design, we analyze third-grade students to investigate these age-related effects. Additionally, we explore whether early childhood education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Age Differences, Early Childhood Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2024
The "Examining Implementation and Outcomes of the Project On-Track High-Dosage Literacy Tutoring Program" study describes the characteristics of students who participated in a full year of Project On-Track, a high-dosage, small-group literacy tutoring program for students in grade 1-3. Its online adaptive program, Amplify Reading, groups…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Literacy, Tutoring, Grade 1
Gerald Tindal; Joseph F. T. Nese – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2024
We present two types of validity evidence to support inferences and decisions about use of easyCBMs in relation to state testing programs. The first type involves the use of Benchmarks in reading to use in making predictions of performance on the Smarter Balanced (SB) test. These predictions can be made both well in advance (several months) or…
Descriptors: Classification, Accuracy, Validity, Criteria
Utah State Board of Education, 2024
The Early Literacy Program focuses on the development of early literacy skills, with additional emphasis on intervention for students at risk of not meeting grade-based reading benchmarks. Districts and charter schools (LEAs) assess, and report to the state, students' reading composites and benchmarks three (3) times a year using the Acadience…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Skill Development, At Risk Students, School Districts
Susan Kowalski; Megan Kuhfeld; Scott Peters; Gustave Robinson; Karyn Lewis – NWEA, 2024
The purpose of this technical appendix is to share detailed results and more fully describe the sample and methods used to produce the research brief, "COVID's Impact on Science Achievement: Trends from 2019 through 2024. We investigated three main research questions in this brief: 1) How did science achievement in 2021 and 2024 compare to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Science Achievement, Trend Analysis
Dan Goldhaber; Katherine Baird; Suvekshya Gautam – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
In this paper we analyze the extent to which a mandated kindergarten assessment predicts 3rd grade outcomes, and the academic progression for students from 3rd grade to high school. We find that the kindergarten assessment strongly predicts 3rd grade outcomes, with the math skills assessment being especially predictive of 3rd grade academic…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains