
Megan Kuhfeld
@megankuhfeld
Senior Research Scientist at @NWEA. Interested in psychometrics, educational policy, and dogs.
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09-03-2018 00:32:18
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Come join our exciting team of @LizRGBarker, Erin Fahle, S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis on the blue place, Ayesha Hashim, Megan Kuhfeld, and Steven Wise. We have openings for *two* Research Scientists. You can work remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! (1/3)


Download a "first look" SEDA: District-level (!) 2019-2022 test score trends from 29 states (and growing): edopportunity.org/get-the-data/ Proud of sean reardon Erin Fahle @BenjaminRShear and the The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford plus Tom Kane and the Harvard CEPR team for pulling this together so quickly. 1/



New @nwea research out from me and Megan Kuhfeld looking at fall 2022 data shows continued progress towards academic recovery. The gap between current and pre-pandemic test scores continues to shrink across grades and subjects. 1/n bit.ly/3UyT10f





New The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford and Harvard CEPR data from 41 states! sean reardon and Tom Kane with a balanced op-ed, "schools cannot just 'hurry up.'" Great paper by them, Erin Fahle, et al linked therein finds links with COVID deaths, anxiety, institutional trust... nytimes.com/interactive/20…


3 learning loss reports document the lack of progress during the 22-23 school year. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t… Douglas N. Harris explains the true situation is worse because the most behind students aren't being tested and not part of this data & (1/2) brookings.edu/articles/three…

📣 NEW TODAY! The wonderful Ayesha Hashim & I updated the Results for America & Annenberg Institute at Brown #EdResearchforAction brief on #evidence-based strategies for accelerating student academic recovery. NWEA American Institutes for Research bit.ly/acceleratingle…

Excited to share a new article in the Oklahoma Education Journal summarizing much of the recent research (Paul Thompson Christopher J. Doss Megan Kuhfeld and others) on 4-day school weeks, with a focus on outcomes in OK. Thanks Daniel Hamlin for the opportunity! oej.scholasticahq.com/article/89149-…

Tomorrow: Join us for our next PIER seminar in Larsen 106 or via livestream (cepr.harvard.edu/pier-seminar) with Jim Soland on the subject of IRT program evaluation methods.

Excited to share the EER version of my and Paul Thompson Megan Kuhfeld 's paper examining the impacts of four-day school weeks (now in nearly 900 US districts!) on student achievement across 6 states using NWEA MAP Growth data. bit.ly/3PP5b5I 🧵

🚨New CALDER Center NWEA Harvard CEPR WP on SY 22-23 interventions in 8 large districts We find: - Interventions were delivered to fewer students and for less time than intended - Just 5 of 22 interventions had positive effects (+.06 to +.33 SD) caldercenter.org/publications/i…

A comparison of post-pandemic academic recovery trends reveals that math scores have slowly recovered since 2022, but English/language arts scores show no signs of consistent recovery. More from Megan Kuhfeld and Karyn Lewis: brookings.edu/articles/asses…


Tutoring works. But a paper released today by Beth Schueler and Matthew A. Kraft confirm that larger programs yield smaller learning gains. An exclusive on the problem of scale from me this morning the74million.org/article/tutori… The 74

Coming up on 10/8 #LearningTuesdays will explore what's next in the ongoing quest for educational recovery w/ NWEA Chiefs for Change Curriculum Associates EdTrust McKinsey & Company UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools moderated by Hedy Chang of Attendance Works Join Campaign for Grade-Level Reading REGISTER: ow.ly/MkVI50Q4MTP
