Advancing Educational Equity: Tools for Evidence Building

This resource provides educators, school district leaders, researchers, and funders a set of measures and approaches to assess the extent that math instruction and interventions change what students know and how they feel about math, as well as how they use math outside of the classroom.

This menu describes a set of teacher- and student-level measures and approaches to understand the extent that writing instruction and interventions change how teachers think about and teach students about writing, and what students know and how they feel about writing.

The Measurement and Evaluation Template is a road map organizations and funders can use to develop a detailed measurement and evaluation plan with support from a research partner.

This template is for organizations that want to incorporate the needs and preferences of the communities they intend to reach into their program, practice, or product’s design. It includes space for organizations to document a description of their program, practice, or product; their theory of change; their learning objectives and approach; and a timeline to carry out the work.

Phase 1 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the process of co-designing a solution with a partner and developing a well-defined theory of change for how that solution is expected to improve outcomes for students in a priority community.

Phase 2 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to refine a solution based on lessons learned during implementation. By following these steps, users will develop descriptive evidence that the refined solution was successfully implemented in a priority community.

Phase 3 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to conduct a small pilot study and demonstrate that a solution is associated with improved outcomes for students in a priority community.

Phase 4 of the Measurement and Evaluation Checklist guides users through the steps to conduct a large pilot study and demonstrate with a high degree of confidence that a solution leads to improved outcomes for students in a priority community.

This guide is designed for organizations implementing solutions, with support from a research partner. It provides guidance on when and how to measure usability, usefulness, and utilization—key indicators of success during early implementation.

This guide is designed to support organizations at different stages of solution development and implementation define a set of targets for each research question they will answer. Targets enable organizations or their funders to define success.

This guide is designed for funders and organizations implementing solutions with support from a research partner. It provides an overview of the sample size considerations for each of the evidence-building phases.

This tool offers strategies for engaging community members as part of a research team and including their experiences, perspectives, and expertise throughout the research process.

This resource is intended to guide an organization’s approach to data interpretation, with the goal of interpreting study data collaboratively with members of the community or communities where research is taking place.

Organizations, research partners, and funders can use the Measurement and Evaluation Reporting Template to summarize and share findings from a study.

This tool offers strategies for integrating community perspectives when disseminating research. It outlines key steps for co-interpretation—or collaborating with community members to interpret data—along with strategies for sharing findings that are accessible to and reach communities.