Isaac Opper
Associated IES Content
Single-Session Panels FY2024
FY2024 Single-Session Peer Review Panel
Grant
An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Virtual Enterprises
For this project, the research team will provide evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Virtual Enterprises (VE), a virtual work-based learning (WBL) program. Many high schools are struggling to ensure that all graduates are prepared for college and the workforce, and employers consistently report difficulty in finding workers with sufficient employability skills, such as teamwork and communication. A growing number of education practitioners and researchers have argued that inco...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A210198
Grant
Using Machine Learning Methods to Improve Regression Discontinuity Designs
The purpose of this project is to develop an approach that incorporates machine learning methods into a regression discontinuity design to improve precision and reduce bias in the treatment effect estimates.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305D200008
Grant
Does Incentivizing Value-Added Make it More or Less Meaningful?
The purpose of this project was to explore how the malleable incentives implicit in teacher tenure policy are related to teacher practice and student achievement by estimating whether the predictiveness of the incentivized measures changes after they become incentivized.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A190148
report
Impact Study
Impact of a Checklist on Principal-Teacher Feedback Conferences Following Classroom Observations
In partnership with the New Mexico Public Education Department, Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest researchers conducted a statewide experiment in school year 2015/16 to test impacts of a checklist on the feedback conferences principals had with teachers after formal classroom observations. Of the 336 participating schools in New Mexico, the REL Southwest researchers selected half at random in fall 2015 as the treatment group. All school leaders in the treatment group received th...
Jan 01, 2018