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New Report: Summary of Federal Efforts to Build Evidence through Rigorous Grantee Evaluations
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Finding innovative educational strategies that work is important to help improve student learning and close equity gaps nationwide. The goal of the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) was to build high-quality evidence about
effective educational strategies and to expand implementation of these strategies. Between 2010 and 2016, i3 awarded 172 five-year grants totaling $1.4 billion to universities, school districts, and private non-profit organizations. Grantees were required
to fund independent evaluations that would meet high standards for quality. This report examines the quality and findings of the 148 i3 evaluations, completed at or after the conclusion of the grants, and provides information about the focus of the strategies
tested.
Key Findings include:
- The most common strategies grantees implemented involved professional development for educators to improve instruction or reform schools.
- Grantees largely met the i3 goal of producing rigorous evidence about their educational strategy. Specifically, seventy-six percent of the i3 evaluations met the Department’s What Works Clearinghouse standards for study quality.
- However, few of the educational strategies were found to improve student outcomes in grantee sites. Only 26 percent of i3 evaluations found at least one statistically significant positive effect and no negative effects on student academic outcomes.
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the report.
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The Institute of Education Sciences, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the nation's leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation, statistics, and assessment.
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