Research & Evaluation
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Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for State Education Agencies
This guide helps SEA leaders achieve greater alignment and coherence in their whole-person initiatives through an adaptable and guided process.
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Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for Local Education Agencies
This guide helps local education agency (LEA) leaders achieve greater alignment and coherence in their whole-person initiatives through an adaptable and guided process.
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Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan
This scan summarizes recent legislative initiatives that require ethnic studies to be incorporated in the K–12 standards or curricula in 19 states.
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NGSS Instruction: A Powerful Lever for Equitable Learning, Language Development, and Learning in Other Subjects
This brief describes key results and takeaways from WestEd’s evaluation of the California NGSS K–8 Early Implementation Initiative.
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Anti-Racist Evaluation Strategies: A Guide for Evaluation Teams
This Anti-Racist Evaluation Strategies Guide was designed to help evaluators increase their awareness of racism that might be present in the course of an evaluation and to help teams employ strategies to conduct anti-racist evaluations.
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Preliminary Outcomes for California State University Students in Early Start Mathematics
This report examines the impact of recently updated "Early Start" offerings designed to prepare students for college-level mathematics in the California State University system.
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Articulating a Transformative Approach for Designing Tasks that Measure Young Learners’ Developing Proficiencies in Integrated Science and Literacy
In this paper, authors introduce an approach for designing NGSS-aligned assessments that measure young learners’ science progress.
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Developing Educator Expertise to Work with Adolescent English Learners Module 1: Introduction to Key Constructs
Explore how to build a common knowledge base to provide coherence to the field of educating English Learners in secondary schools.
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Students' Use of School-Based Telemedicine Service and Rates of Returning to Class After These Services in a Small Elementary School District
This study report, developed by REL West at WestEd, describes the first two years of implementation of school-based telemedicine services before the pandemic at one small elementary school district.
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Addressing the Needs of Students Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlights from the Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano County Offices of Education Bay Area Geographic Leads Consortium
This report explores how five Bay Area counties and local school districts pivoted to reach, teach, and support the holistic needs of students experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Arkansas School Finance Study
This report describes an education finance study WestEd conducted for the State of Arkansas and provides a set of seven recommendations to the State that reflect the study’s body of work.
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Hero Elementary Playlist RCT Study in Formal School and Distance Learning Contexts
WestEd conducted a randomized controlled study to investigate how NGSS-aligned transmedia playlists can support student engagement and learning.
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Can Racial and Ethnic Disparities Be Mitigated Through Police Training?
In this session, professors Robin Engel, Lorie Fridell, and Tracey Meares, as well as Deputy Chief Tarrick McGuire examine whether training innovations in procedural justice, implicit bias, de-escalation, and community policing can lead to equitable outcomes.
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Student Progress Before and After California State University’s Executive Order 1110
This report compares outcomes for students who entered the CSU system in the first year under the new Executive Order 1110 policy (2018) against the outcomes of students who entered in 2017, just prior to implementation.
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High-Quality Charter Authorizing Policy State Profiles
The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) created the High-Quality Charter Authorizing Policy Profiles (State Profiles) as summaries of states’ charter school authorization policy contexts.
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