Marie-Andrée Somers
Associated IES Content
FY2017
Reading, Writing, and Language Development FY2022
Grant
Planning Randomized Controlled Trials in Community Colleges
The project team developed products to support community college researchers with the same type of empirically based benchmarks, design parameters, and tools currently available for K-12 researchers planning and interpreting randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305D190025
Grant
An Efficacy Study of Multi-Tiered Academic, Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Supports in High-Need, Urban Middle Schools
The purpose of this project is to generate rigorous evidence of the effects of the Whole School, Whole Child (WSWC) dropout prevention model and the unique value of Tier 2 services within that model. The WSWC model is a two-tiered model, developed and widely implemented by City Year (YR) that aims to provide a safe and supportive learning environment to students as well as support to students at risk of dropping out based on their academic performance, behavior, and absenteeism. City Year Am...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A170227
report
Impact Study
Evaluation of the Content Literacy Continuum: Report on Program Impacts, Program Fidelity, and Contrast
This report presents the findings of a rigorous experimental impact evaluation and implementation study of one such intervention, the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), developed by researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. This evaluation of CLC was conducted by three partnering organizations: REL Midwest, MDRC, and Survey Research Management. Thirty-three high schools in nine districts across four Midwestern states agreed to participate in this evaluation, and ...
Dec 01, 2012