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A Second Follow-Up Year for Measuring How Benchmark Assessments Affect Student Achievement
By: Susan Henderson, Anthony Petrosino, Sarah Guckenburg, Stephen Hamilton
This technical brief, prepared by staff in WestEd's Learning Innovations Program, examines whether, after two years of implementation, schools in Massachusetts using quarterly benchmark exams aligned with state standards in middle school mathematics showed greater gains in student achievement than those not doing so. A quasi-experimental design, using covariate matching and comparative interrupted time-series techniques, was used to assess school differences in changes in mathematics performance between program and comparison schools. Following up on an earlier report, Measuring How Benchmark Assessments Affect Student Achievement, with just one year of post-implementation data, the study found no significant differences between schools using this practice and those not doing so after two years.
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