Examining Student and Teacher Math Learning: Lessons from Three Summer Programs

This brief presents evidence on the effect three summer programs have on student math knowledge and explores participants’ perceptions and teacher learning during the programs.

Testing New Approaches to Math Tutoring: Lessons from Eight Evaluations

This brief presents results from evaluations of eight tutoring programs that piloted alternative tutoring approaches, such as virtual and group tutoring, among diverse groups of students in grades 4 through 10 during the 2021–2022 school year.

Selecting and Supporting Math Tutoring Programs: Recommendations for School Districts

Explore four recommendations school districts should consider when selecting tutoring programs and supporting their implementation.

Guide to Equitably Co-Interpreting Data with Community Collaborators

This tool 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. It is part of Mathematica’s suite of measurement and evaluation (M&E) tools.

Breakthrough Collaborative’s Tutoring Program: Math Knowledge Gains and Participant Math Perceptions

This study measures the math knowledge gains and math perceptions among eight-grade students who participated in an afterschool math tutoring pilot program. The study report is one in a series of six reports on math tutoring programs.

Cignition Group Tutoring: Impacts on Students’ Math Knowledge and Perceptions

This study measures the impact of a virtual group math tutoring program on fifth-grade students’ math knowledge achievement and perceptions about math. The study report is one in a series of six reports on math tutoring programs.

Blueprint Math Fellows Tutoring Program: Math Knowledge Impacts and Participant Math Perceptions

This study measures the impact of a group tutoring program on the math knowledge achievement of middle school students, as well as the math perceptions of tutoring participants, at two predominantly Hispanic suburban middle schools. The study report is one in a series of six reports on math tutoring...

Air Tutors’ Online Tutoring: Math Knowledge Impacts and Participant Math Perceptions

This study measures the impact of an online tutoring program on the math knowledge achievement of students in grades 4-6, as well as the math perceptions of tutoring participants. The study report is one in a series of six reports on math tutoring programs.

Sample Size Guide

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.

Guide to Setting Targets for Research Questions

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

Measurement and Evaluation Reporting Template

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

Impacts of UPchieve On-Demand Tutoring on Students’ Math Knowledge and Perceptions

This study measures the impact of an on-demand tutoring program on math knowledge achievement and perceptions about math for middle and high school students from low-income backgrounds. This report is one of six reports on math tutoring programs funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Economic Benefits of Delayed Sexual Activity

The avoidance of sexual activity among youth not only prevents unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections but can also promote healthy outcomes and contribute to the positive development of youth.

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home-Delivered Food Box on Children’s Diet Quality in the Chickasaw Nation Packed Promise Project

Poor diet quality among children can lead to poor health, development, and academic achievement. Child nutrition assistance programs aim to improve diet quality among children.

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home-Delivered Food Box on Food Security in Chickasaw Nation

The 2010 Child Nutrition reauthorization called for the independent evaluation of innovative strategies to reduce the risk of childhood hunger or improve the food security status of households with children.

Measuring the Effects of a Demonstration to Reduce Childhood Food Insecurity: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Nevada Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Project

To reduce childhood hunger, the US Department of Agriculture funded a set of demonstration projects, including the Nevada Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids (HHFK) project.

A Randomized Controlled Trial Measuring Effects of Extra Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefits on Child Food Security in Low-Income Families in Rural Kentucky

To reduce childhood hunger, the US Department of Agriculture funded several innovative demonstration projects, including the Kentucky Ticket to Healthy Food project.

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction—Executive Summary

This is the executive summary for Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction presenting findings from a random assignment study examining how providing coaching and support to schools to help them use student data to inform teachers’ instruction affects teachers’ practices...

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction—Appendices

This is the appendices for Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction presenting findings from a random assignment study examining how providing coaching and support to schools to help them use student data to inform teachers’ instruction affects teachers’ practices...

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction

This report presents findings from a random assignment study examining how providing coaching and support to schools to help them use student data to inform teachers’ instruction affects teachers’ practices and student achievement.

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Nevada Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Project

This evaluation report describes the vision, implementation, and impacts on child food insecurity and other outcomes of the Nevada Healthy, Hunger Free Kids (HHFK) project.

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Virginia 365 Project

This evaluation report describes the vision, implementation, and impacts on child food insecurity and other outcomes of the Virginia 365 project.

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Chickasaw Nation Packed Promise Project

This evaluation report describes the vision, implementation, and impacts on child food insecurity and other outcomes of the Chickasaw Nation Packed Promise project.

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Kentucky Ticket to Healthy Food Project

This evaluation report describes the vision, implementation, and impacts on child food insecurity and other outcomes of the Kentucky Ticket to Healthy Food (TTHF) project.

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger: Final Interim Evaluation Report

USDA funded innovative strategies to end child hunger and food insecurity, and an independent, rigorous impact evaluation―the Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger. This report describes the planning, early implementation, and baseline findings for the demonstrations.

Using Behavioral Insights to Help Employers Resolve OSHA Citations: Trial Design and Findings (Final Report)

This report provides findings from Mathematica’s behavioral insights study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Using Behavioral Insights to Strengthen Labor Programs: Lessons Learned

This report provides lessons learned by Mathematica’s behavioral insights study team on a project conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor.