Achievement for All
Customized training and coaching for districts and schools designed to close the achievement gap and accelerate the learning of students with disabilities and those at risk.
Adult Numeracy in the Digital Era: A Technology-Based Quantitative and Digital Literacy Course for Adult Learners
Numeracy and digital literacy skills are essential for navigating and participating in an advancing world. ANDE is using technology to bring these skills to more adult learners.
Alignment of ETS 2016 HiSET Exam to College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education
This WestEd study provides evidence of alignment between the Educational Testing Service’s 2016 HiSET high school equivalency exam and the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education.
An Efficacy Study of My Math Academy: Improving Children's Math Skills Through a Personalized, Early Learning Technology Solution
Project Duration: July 2022-June 2026
An Efficacy Study of the MathSpring Personalized Learning System That Responds to Student Affect
This efficacy study examines the benefits of an online personalized learning system for improving student learning outcomes and attitude toward math.
Arizona Mayors Education Roundtable
Learn about the Arizona Mayors Education Roundtable, which brings together mayors, superintendents, and key staff throughout the state to share best practices for improving education.
Atlanta Public Schools Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
What do school and district administrators, and community members need to know to improve school safety? And how can they create safe and supportive learning environments for children and staff?
Beginning Together
Beginning Together ensures that the certified trainers in WestEd's Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC) promote information about children with special needs and quality inclusive practices.
Boston Compact English Learner Initiative
This collaborative effort helped teachers and leaders in public, charter, and Catholic schools in the greater Boston area improve academic outcomes for English learners.
California Healthy Kids Survey
The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) is a comprehensive youth risk behavior and resilience data collection service available to all California local education agencies.
California Preschool Instructional Network Project
This project provides professional development and technical assistance to preschool teachers and administrators to ensure preschool children are ready for school.
California School Staff Survey (CSSS)
The California School Staff Survey (CSCS) provides a way to confidentially obtain staff perceptions about learning and teaching conditions.
California State Superintendent’s Assessment Recommendations
Learn how WestEd helped shape the development of a next-generation, comprehensive student assessment system, K–12, for the state of California.
California Statewide Early Math Initiative: A Formative Evaluation
How do educational leaders build educators' confidence and capacity to support children's early math? Read about a statewide early math professional learning model in California.
California Student Survey (CSS)
The California Student Survey (CSS) gathers data on substance use; school safety; harassment and violence; youth resilience factors, and health-related behaviors.
Carnegie Math Pathways
Be part of the growing network of institutions that are empowering students to reach their college and career goals by transforming their mathematics learning experience.
Center for IDEA Fiscal Reporting
The Center for IDEA Fiscal Reporting aims to improve state capacity to report special education data through expert leadership, deep understanding, strong collaboration, and comprehensive and ongoing internal professional learning.
Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (The SEL Center)
The SEL Center focuses on helping educators integrate evidence-based SEL and school safety efforts with academics, to prepare students to succeed in school, career, and life.
Computer Science Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Research Study
What do teachers need to know to teach computer science effectively? And how can they obtain that knowledge through an on-the-job professional development program?
Data for Decisions Initiative
Educators, policymakers, and researchers: Visit the Data for Decisions Initiative website for solution-driven tools, resources, and research to develop a better understanding of how to use data to improve education outcomes.
Desired Results Training and Technical Assistance Project
This training is designed to facilitate implementation of the Desired Results system in programs at the local level and to build program capacity to train staff who work directly with children.
Doing What Works
WestEd developed content for the Doing What Works multimedia Library, which builds a bridge from research to action, helping educators implement research-based practices more effectively.
E3 Institute Advancing Excellence in Early Education
The E3 Institute Advancing Excellence in Early Education supports and strengthens early childhood professional development through education, recruitment, and financial incentives.
Early Math Initiative
Read about the Early Math Initiative, designed to help federal and state-funded preschool programs enhance mathematical development and learning in young children.
East Los Angeles Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Project Evaluation
WestEd evaluators assessed East Los Angeles' Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training program effects on student outcomes.
Efficacy of ASSISTments Online Homework Support for Middle School Mathematics Learning: A Replication Study
WestEd is conducting a replication study to examine the benefits of an online platform that helps make middle school math homework more effective.
Efficacy Study of Adventures Aboard the S.S.GRIN: Social, Emotional, and Academic Skills
Read about the Adventures Aboard S.S.GRIN, a game-based online program designed to improve social and academic outcomes for elementary school students.
Efficacy Study of an Integrated Science and Literacy Curriculum for First Grade
WestEd researchers are leading a study on the benefits of a new literacy-rich science curriculum designed to help elementary school teachers support their students in meeting the Next Generation Science Standards.
Equity Accelerator
An Initiative of WestEd’s Resilient and Healthy Schools & Communities Funded by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation as part of the COVID Education Equity Response Collaborative, the year-long Equity Accelerator provided statewide professional learning sessions and an intensive fellows program for select county offices of education (COEs). Professional learning sessions addressed issues of adult mindsets […]
Evaluating the Impact of Amplify Science Middle School Curriculum on Teaching and Learning
WestEd researchers are leading a study on the benefits of a new middle school curriculum for helping teachers and students meet the Next Generation Science Standards.
Evaluation of California’s Improving Outcomes for Youth Victims of Human Trafficking
Read about an evaluation of outcomes for non–system-involved, transitional-aged youth who are victims of human trafficking.
Evaluation of Healthy U: An App-Based Sexual Health Education and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum for Youthful Offenders
Evaluation of Healthy U: An App-Based Sexual Health Education and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum for Youthful Offenders
Evaluation of Montgomery County’s Drug and Alcohol Programs
How do school- and community-based substance use prevention programs increase students’ protective factors and knowledge of substance use risks?
Exploring Longitudinal Outcomes and Trajectories of English Language Learners
How do secondary newcomers to U.S. schools vary in their achievement, and how can they be better supported?
Formative Assessment Bundling Literacy and Elementary Science for NGSS Instruction
How can we develop classroom-based formative assessment resources to support elementary teachers in advancing students’ integrated science and literacy learning?
Formative Evaluation of the California Teacher Residency Grant Program
WestEd is conducting an external formative evaluation of the Teacher Residency Grant Program administered by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Guided Pathways: Designing Metamajors to Reduce Equity Gaps
WestEd has created a series of free resources to support the development of metamajors that are designed to reduce equity gaps and help students achieve career and life goals.
Health & Justice Program Surveys
WestEd's Health & Justice Program is a leading center for survey research on adolescent risk behavior, resilience, and well-being. Our staff are specialists in designing and conducting large-scale survey research in schools and communities. This encompasses sampling, obtaining parent consent and student participation, administering surveys, processing and analyzing data, and generating reports. Through our work we identify the scope and nature of youth behaviors and the factors that influence it. We seek to build on the strengths of youth and meet their needs so that they are successful in school and life.
How I Know: Designing Meaningful Formative Assessment Practices
What do teachers need to know so that their students understand how they are doing each day; they can evaluate the quality of their students' work; and students and teachers can make decisions about next steps in learning?
Improving Children's Understanding of Equivalence: An Efficacy Study
Second-grade students who understand the meaning behind the equal sign are better prepared to learn new math concepts in later grades.
Indiana ISTEP+ Grade 10 and ISTAR Assessment Alignment Studies
How do items on general and alternative standardized state assessments properly measure Indiana academic standards in English/language arts, mathematics, and science?
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Network
Learn about infant and early childhood mental health consultation services, supports, and resources for childcare and early education providers and programs in California.
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training Evaluation
Read about WestEd's evaluation of critical training for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program.
K-12 Alliance
Constantly evolving to meet the the changing needs of school districts and teachers, the K-12 Alliance develops and implements quality custom-designed science and/or math professional learning programs in California and nationwide.
Khan Academy Resources: A Postsecondary Mathematics Research Project
WestEd is conducting research on the effectiveness of Khan Academy’s resources for maximizing community college students’ mathematics achievement.
Louisiana Educational Assessment Program Social Studies Assessments: Grades 3-8 and U.S. History End-of-Course Assessment
How are students in Louisiana evaluated for their performance in understanding social studies content in grades 3-8 and high school?
Making Sense of SCIENCE
Making Sense of SCIENCE connects hands-on science with integrated teaching and literacy supports, positively impacting thousands of teachers and students.
Map to Inclusive Child Care Project
The Map to Inclusive Child Care (MAP) Project is committed to improving access to quality child care for children with disabilities or other special needs and their families.
Massachusetts Safe & Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) Evaluation
The Massachusetts Safe and Successful Youth Initiative is having a positive impact, according to WestEd evaluation outcomes.
Math in Common Evaluation
WestEd is conducting an evaluation to help Math in Common school districts meet their Common Core State Standards implementation objectives.
Math Pathways & Pitfalls
WestEd's Mathematics Case Methods Project has developed Math Pathways and Pitfalls student lessons with proven success for English- and Spanish-speaking students from kindergarten through 8th grade.
Measure to Learn and Improve (MLI) California Data Partner
What are teachers and principals saying about the implementation of the California Academic Standards in English language arts and mathematics?
Migrant Student Information Network (MSIN)
This project helps California's Migrant Regions produce the unduplicated count of migrant students in the state, as required by the U.S. Department of Education.
NAEP Assessment Framework Update
WestEd is leading the Updates of Mathematics and Reading Assessment Frameworks for the Nation’s Report Card
National Center for Systemic Improvement
WestEd’s National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) helps states transform their systems to improve outcomes for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
National Research & Development Center on Cognition & Mathematics Instruction (Math Center)
This federally funded National Research & Development Center aims to enhance the conditions of instruction and improve learning outcomes for students in important and challenging mathematics concepts and skills.
National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners
The center works to connect research findings to policy and practice, engage in national leadership, build capacity, and promote information that improves outcomes for secondary English Learners.
New York State Assessments in Mathematics and English Language Arts
WestEd provides key support, including test development and technical expertise, to build New York State’s assessments of the state’s standards in mathematics and English language arts.
Next Generation Science Assessment Collaborative
A multi-institutional collaborative is developing instructionally-supportive assessment tasks for teachers to gain insights into their students’ proficiency with the Next Generation Science Standards.
NextGenScience
Founded in 2020 by the former Achieve Science team, NextGenScience partners with state, district, and curriculum leaders to design, implement, and evaluate K-12 science education systems.
Parent Involvement Project
Learn about the Parent Involvement Project, providing quality early learning activities for families.
Program for Infant/Toddler Care
Responsive, relationship-based care is key for supporting high-quality infant/toddler care. Learn about PITC's approach to creating safe and engaging care environments.
Quality Teaching for English Learners
Quality Teaching for English Learners provides elementary and secondary school educators nationwide with the tools they need to accelerate language development, academic literacy, and disciplinary knowledge of all students, particularly English learners.
READi (Reading, Evidence, and Argumentation in Disciplinary Instruction)
This Institute of Education Sciences research initiative designed and tested an argument-based approach to disciplinary reading.
Reading Apprenticeship Across the Disciplines
This WestEd project aims to improve secondary school teacher effectiveness and student learning by providing literacy-focused, research-based professional learning experiences to 2,000 teachers.
Reading Apprenticeship: Improving Academic Literacy and Social Emotional Learning for Middle, High School, and College Students
Reading Apprenticeship provides educators with a practitioner-tested and research-validated professional development approach that helps students develop the literacy competencies, subject area knowledge, and the learner dispositions they need—for school, college, career, and life.
Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections
Learn about a blended Reading Apprenticeship professional learning model that WestEd is creating and implementing to support teacher learning through the school year.
Ready To Learn Evaluations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Educational Digital Resources for Children & Families
WestEd is conducting extensive research on and evaluation of the design and learning impacts of Ready to Learn educational digital media content for children and their families. Access our reports on formative evaluations, technology needs assessments, and impact studies.
Region 13 Comprehensive Center
The Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC) led by WestEd is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network) and provides capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Staff at […]
Region 15 Comprehensive Center
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center develops and implements capacity-building technical assistance to support the state education agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.
Region 2 Comprehensive Center
The Region 2 Comprehensive Center develops and implements capacity-building technical assistance to support the state education agencies (SEAs) in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island as they address educational needs in their states and implement priority goals outlined in their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) State Plans.
Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West)
The Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) at WestEd — serving Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah — is part of a national network of 10 RELs whose mission is to provide research, analytic support, and resources that increase the use of high‑quality data and evidence in education decision-making, and link research with practice.
Research Into Skills-Builder Outcomes
WestEd is helping to shed light on non-completion community college outcomes.
Research Partnerships
The Regional Educational Laboratory West partners with regional, state, and district research alliances of diverse education stakeholders to address their specific education concerns. This work involves two interdependent goals: improving educational practice and using high-quality data and research evidence to inform that process.
Research Studies
WestEd's Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) conducts research that addresses key questions of importance to regional stakeholders.
Safe and Successful Youth Initiative
What have we learned from over a decade of violence prevention evaluation work in Massachusetts?
State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness Alternate 2: Alignment Study
WestEd evaluation results on the linkage between Texas’s alternate assessment and the state’s academic content standards supported documentation for a federal Peer Review process.
STEMworks
STEMworks is a searchable database of high-quality, evidence-based STEM programs, which meet rigorous evaluation criteria for effective STEM learning programs.
Sub-Baccalaureate Career and Technical Education: A Study of Institutional Practices, Labor Market Demand, and Student Outcomes in Florida
Read about WestEd’s study to better understand how community and technical colleges align career and technical education (CTE) programs to the labor market and how this alignment impacts student outcomes.
SUNI: Scaling Up Through Networked Improvement
How do postsecondary institutions scale complex innovations? SUNI seeks to test and refine a practical theory of implementing innovation at scale with the role that leaders play in that process.
Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of Automatically Scored Three-dimensional Assessment [PASTA]
Promoting the future of three-dimensional science teaching by coupling machine-learning-scored classroom assessments with the pedagogical content knowledge supports middle-grades teachers need to enact transformative practice.
Teachers Supporting Student Motivation and Engagement in NGSS Instruction
WestEd researchers are part of a multi-institutional effort to develop a professional learning approach for science teachers that will equip them to support and sustain students’ motivation for achieving the Next Generation Science Standards.
TechSF H-1B Technical Skills Training Program
WestEd partnered with others to implement sector strategies to recruit, assess, educate, and place in jobs long-term unemployed and those not traditionally represented in IT careers.
Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program: Grade 2 English Language Arts and Mathematics Assessments
Learn about the design and development of innovative grade 2 English language arts and mathematics assessments in Tennessee.
The Bridge Project: Accelerating Educational Leaders’ Careers and Advancing Equity in the Principal Pathway
An effective, diverse principal workforce is essential to retaining high-quality teachers, supporting student learning, and advancing equity. Nationally, superintendents report that staffing principalships is difficult, yet certified educators are often available who could fulfill these roles and make an impact for the communities they serve. Illinois, for example, has four certified educators for each open […]
The Code Alignment Project: A Faculty-led Process at California Community Colleges
What is the process for colleges to conduct an internal review of their programs through WestEd?
The Data Integration Support Center (DISC) at WestEd
The Data Integration Support Center at WestEd provides expert privacy, policy, and legal assistance for public agencies nationwide.
Understanding Proficiency
Educators, develop a deeper understanding of college- and career-ready standards by analyzing student work on performance tasks. Visit the Understanding Proficiency website.
Violence Prevention Navigation Framework (VPNF)
Violence in cities across the United States is on the rise, with a 35% increase in homicide rates from 2020 to 2021, and concerns about gun violence. Historically, efforts to prevent violence have been fragmented and lacking in resources. However, with the U.S. government’s commitment in 2021 to a comprehensive approach to violence prevention, supported […]
WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center
The WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center focuses on high-quality research to identify solutions that promote positive community and school environments.
WestEd/SVMI Mathematics Network
The WestEd/SVMI Mathematics Network supports Southern California educator leadership teams preparing students to be college and career ready in mathematics.
Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
The Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) is one of four Equity Assistance Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Through a combination of universal, targeted, and intensive technical assistance, the WEEAC addresses special educational problems occasioned by desegregation to provide more equitable educational opportunities for all students—regardless of race, national origin, sex, and religion.
What Works to Make Schools Safe: Campus Shield Program
How can multiple data sources be used to proactively respond to student safety and mental health incidents? WestEd researchers aim to find out.