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CADRE research brief

Documenting Their Decisions: How Undocumented Students Enroll and Persist in College

Jan. 24, 2023

Undocumented students who became eligible for California’s state aid program enroll in college at similar rates to their peers, though are more likely to attend community college due to differences in where they apply. Yet undocumented students who attend four-year colleges are equally likely to persist and earn a degree, pushing against any evidence of “mismatch” that suggests these students are not prepared for those environments.

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The Impact of Merit Aid on College Choice and Degree Attainment: Reexamining Florida’s Bright Futures Program

Jan. 24, 2023

We find that Florida’s Bright Futures financial aid program had essentially no impact on postsecondary enrollment and degree completion. These findings align with emerging notions that state merit aid programs produce smaller effects when compared to more effective need-based aid.

CADRE research brief

“Prior-prior year” FAFSA increased aid submissions but likely not enrollment

Jan. 24, 2023

The federal government instituted changes to simplify the FAFSA filing process – known as “prior-prior year” – which led students to submit their FAFSA substantially earlier and increased refiling rates for independent students. Nonetheless, the policy did not appear to substantially alter state aid receipt or postsecondary attendance for any groups.

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Academic Coaching and its Relationship to Student Performance, Retention, and Credit Completion

April 28, 2021

In this study, we provide a rich description of one academic coaching program and use a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the program’s effects on student outcomes. We investigate two research questions: 1) how does academic coaching influence key student outcomes? and 2) to what extent do these effects vary by amount of coaching received?

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Classroom Assessment Principles to Support Teaching and Learning

Feb. 11, 2020

This document presents a set of classroom assessment principles intended as a resource for practitioners, especially school leaders and district and state policymakers. Together these principles articulate a shared vision for effective classroom assessment practices.

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Between-Year Stability of Growth Percentiles : Technical Brief #3

Jan. 16, 2020

Link to Resource: Between-Year Stability of Growth Percentiles : Technical Brief #3 Authors: Benjamin R. Shear and Elena Diaz-Bilello The purpose of this research brief for the Colorado Department of Education Accountability & Data Analysis Unit is to examine the stability of year‐to‐year median growth percentiles by assessment content area...

Growth Percentiles, Achievement & Demographics: Technical Brief #1 - 2019

Jan. 16, 2020

Link to Resource: Growth Percentiles, Achievement & Demographics: Technical Brief #1 - 2019 Author: Benjamin R. Shear and Elena Diaz-Bilello The purpose of this research brief for the Colorado Department of Education Accountability & Data Analysis is to address to what extent are school‐level Median Growth Percentiles correlated with current...

Factors Impacting Growth Percentile Variability: Technical Brief #2 - 2019

Jan. 16, 2020

Link to Resource: Factors Impacting Growth Percentile Variability: Technical Brief #2 - 2019 Author: Benjamin R. Shear and Elena Diaz-Bilello The purpose of this research brief for the Colorado Department of Education Accountability & Data Analysis Unit is to address the question, compared to achievement, how much of the variability...

Summary of Median Growth Percentile Analyses: Descriptive Statistics, Demographics Correlations, and Stability Analyses

Jan. 16, 2020

Link to Resource: Summary of Median Growth Percentile Analyses: Descriptive Statistics, Demographics Correlations, and Stability Analyses Authors: Benjamin R. Shear Citation: Shear, B.R. (2019). Summary of median growth percentile analyses: Descriptive statistics, demographics correlations, and stability analyses. Boulder, CO: The Center for Assessment, Design, Research and Evaluation (CADRE).

A Learning Progression for Modeling Energy Flows in Systems

By the ASPIRE Research Team. This paper outlines development of the Modeling Energy Flows Learning Progression and key indicators for each level of the learning progression. This learning progression is designed to directly support three-dimensional science learning by integrating the crosscutting concept of energy in systems and the science practice of modeling at each level.

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