List of Proposed Interventions for the Systematic Replication RFA
Mark Schneider, Director of IES | April 15, 2019
IES is working on next year's RFAs, which we hope to release later this spring. As you may know, we are initiating a research competition focused on the systematic replication of interventions that IES believes have strong evidence of impact. The purpose and general outline of that competition can be found here.
I want to share with you a list of the NCER- and NCSER-funded studies that we are interested in having systematically replicated. These interventions meet the following criteria:
- They are in one of the two areas on which we are focused this year – Reading and Math. We recognize the importance of interventions in science, social/behavioral outcomes, college and career readiness, etc. We will consider interventions in other areas in subsequent years.
- A causal impact study funded by IES has been completed and a paper describing the results of that study has been published.
- The causal impact study described in the paper has been reviewed by the WWC and meets WWC design standards with or without reservations (using version 2.0 or later of the standards).
- Note: Some of the reviews of NCSER-funded studies were conducted for internal purposes and are not published on the WWC website.
- IES believes that there were beneficial and meaningful impacts on student outcomes primarily targeted by the intervention.
- The intervention is ready to be implemented (for example, it is available publicly or by request).
- There have been no recent studies supported by IES or other funding sources to test the effectiveness of the intervention at scale.
- There have not already been multiple replications of the intervention supported by IES.
Since this is a more targeted strategy for supporting replication than IES has used in the past, it is important to give the research community more time to think about how such systematic replication of these interventions could be implemented. There may be face-to-face interventions on this list that could be replicated via other technologies and we welcome such replications, as appropriate.
If we overlooked an intervention that meets these criteria or misidentified an intervention as meeting these criteria, please let me know—and, as always, we are interested in your feedback and thoughts about this effort.
Mark Schneider
Director of IES
Mark.Schneider@ed.gov
(Updated 06/19/2019)
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