Ben Hansen

Through a partnership between the Texas Education Agency (TEA), RTI International, and the University of Michigan (UM), this project will assess the impact of the Additional Days School Year (ADSY) initiative on the outcomes of Texas elementary public-school students. Designed to address summer learning loss, ADSY is a critical tool for helping Texas schools and their students recover from COVID-19 disruptions. Established by Texas House Bill 3, ADSY provides half-day formula funding for sch...

The purpose of this grant is to develop open-source software that will enable researchers to separate the two functions of classical analysis of covariance - covariance adjustment and treatment effect estimation - into distinct modules for the purpose of optimally estimating standard errors. Covariates play an essential role in education evaluations. In observational studies, regression discontinuity studies, and randomized experiments with attrition, covariates can be used to enhance interp...