blog post Testimony: Assessing the Pandemic’s Effects on Student Learning, Absenteeism, and Graduation By Iwunze Ugo Mar 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 ... With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the administration of the state tests—the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments, ...
blog post Test Scores Show Six-Year Setback for California Students By Darriya Starr, Emmanuel Prunty, Joseph Herrera, Iwunze Ugo Dec 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022 ... Source: Smarter Balanced Assessment, California Department of Education (CDE), 2022. Notes: Ever English Learners (ELs) include students ...
blog post What’s Ahead for Education Recovery in California? By Niu Gao, Julian Betts, Bruce Fuller, Laura Hill Oct 20, 2022 Oct 20, 2022 ... National test scores show that the pandemic caused major disruptions to student learning, with especially large effects on Black, Latino, ...
Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 We use a simplified reservoir water balance and temperature model to ... We used it to test various approaches to setting aside and managing an EWB.
Report Dual Enrollment in California By Olga Rodriguez, Niu Gao Oct 18, 2021 ... dual enrollment schools have higher rates of grade 11 Smarter Balanced ... grade, and test score admissions requirements and adopted a multiple measures ...
Report Targeted K–12 Funding and Student Outcomes By Julien Lafortune Oct 6, 2021 Similarly, if we compare spending by student test scores on the 2018–19 Smarter Balanced exams (SBAC), we see districts spend at higher levels at schools where ...
Report Surveying the Landscape of California’s English Learner Reclassification Policy By Laura Hill, Andrew Lee, Joseph Hayes Feb 10, 2021 ... students take the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California ... skills in grades 3-11 through the Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBAC).
blog post COVID-19 Alters College Admissions By Jacob Jackson, Olga Rodriguez, Niu Gao May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 ... Most standardized tests used for admission—such as SAT and ACT—and for placement purposes, such as the Smarter Balanced Assessment, ...
Report Common Core State Standards in California: Evaluating Local Implementation and Student Outcomes By Niu Gao, Julien Lafortune Sep 25, 2019 Most districts aligned their curricula and textbooks in or after the first year that the new Smarter Balanced assessments (SBAC) were administered (2014-15) ...
Report English Learner Trajectories and Reclassification By Julian Betts, Laura Hill, Karen Bachofer, Joseph Hayes ... Sep 23, 2019 ... scoring better than native English speakers on standardized tests. ... and any new criteria based on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) ...