Brown University

The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine if there is a relationship between high school students' participation in youth leadership councils (YLCs) and their developmental competencies (e.g., academic self-efficacy, social skills) and critical consciousness (i.e., the ability to think critically about social inequalities and how to remediate them). This project's central hypothesis was that participation in YLCs is associated with growth in these areas because YLCs lead to fe...

The purpose of this project was to develop, expand, refine, critique, improve, and disseminate EdInstruments, an open-source library of education-relevant measurement tools launched by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. EdInstruments provides information on instruments used to measure students' academic content knowledge, as well as a range of additional capabilities (knowledge, skills, attitudes, and dispositions) that help students thrive. In addition, EdInstruments provides info...

The partnership team will evaluate Massachusetts' long-standing policy of requiring students to pass high school exit examinations (HSEE) in core subjects to earn a high school diploma. The team will generate robust causal evidence of the impact of Massachusetts exit examinations administered between 2002 and 2019 on long-term student outcomes including educational attainment, labor market earnings, and criminal justice involvement. During the state's transition to a new assessment (2020-202...

The purpose of this study is to identify which malleable policies pertaining to teacher tenure and collective bargaining are associated with educational outcomes and explore how and when these relationships are mediated through teachers. Efforts to weaken and repeal tenure laws and collective bargaining rights as a means of increasing the quality of the teacher workforce have gained considerable momentum in recent years. However, these policy reform efforts have far outpaced existing theory ...

Building on existing research collaborations between the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) and researchers at both Vanderbilt and Brown/Harvard Universities, researchers for this project will examine the implementation and impact of the Evaluation Partnership Program (EPP) on teacher and student outcomes. The EPP is a central component of the state's teacher evaluation system and its ongoing efforts to use the system to promote instructional improvement. Researchers will also focus o...