MeasureResults: A Web-based Tool To Support School Administrators in Conducting Analyses

With the No Child Left Behind legislation, schools are under increasing demand to back decisions with evidence. Educators are expected to make decisions using evidence and are responsible for results. Ideally, decisions are based on scientific research, yet most principals lack the facilities or staff to carry out rigorous studies or to interpret the data gathered over the school year. Data warehouses often include raw data but these warehouses often lack sufficient analytical capacity and assistance in setting up and evaluating the outcomes of experiments, especially for decision-makers at the building level. Empirical Education's current tool, MeasureResults ™, is designed to assist administrators, by building the appropriate design and analytical techniques into a simple framework incorporating a web-based interface, automatically generated reports, and technical support that includes expert in-house statistician review of all analyses and reports. The purpose of this project is to enrich this tool to support school principals and administrators in conducting their own "school level quasi-experiments," and to create a new interface for building-level administrators.