New CALDER working paper by @zeyuxu.bsky.social & @brbackes.bsky.social finds that in 2-year colleges in KY, HS GPA is a stronger predictor of gateway course success than test scores-- though neither has very strong predictive power alone. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4iNTibV

Signal boosting this as we are looking for 1-2 more papers. Please get in touch if you're thinking of submitting something on teacher/school VA to APPAM!

Does departmentalized instruction (DI) in elementary school actually help students better transition into middle school? Check out our new CALDER paper by @brbackes.bsky.social, James Cowan, & @cedr.bsky.social to learn about the impacts of DI on long-term achievement in MA. 👉 bit.ly/3FNAX0N

Interview w/ Doug Harris about the new @aefpweb.bsky.social Live Handbook (the Wikipedia of education research): www.the74million.org/article/scho...

Honored to have been a part of this (livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...) and so impressed with the presentation / website design of the final product!

The thing that moves the needle is cleaning everyone's data, which leads to a narrowing in the effect distribution, even as modeling choices continue to differ. This makes sense - we don't teach or discuss standardized/best data-cleaning practices. So there's big variance in how we do it.

Some thoughts in The74 (w/ Ashley, @rbnlake.bsky.social, & Andy) about the "shock and awe" at IES, the IES mission, and how we move forward more constructively. www.the74million.org/article/mend...