NEWS: IES – Researcher Brief on Recruiting Schools and Districts

Today, IES released a brief to help researchers newer to school-based impact studies recruit districts and schools that represent the study’s population of interest so that the findings are more actionable for educators. Improving the quality and relevance of education studies is IES Director Mark Schneider’s central goal for the Standards for Excellence in Education (SEER).

The brief offers practical strategies with real-world examples to address each of four key issues that may play an increasingly important role in affecting a district’s or school’s ability and willingness to participate in impact studies:

  • Attention to urgent priorities and needs
  • Limited staff capacity
  • Commitment to fairness and collaborative practices
  • Protection of student and staff privacy

View the brief by clicking here.

This brief is one of a series that helps researchers implement SEER. Other guides on implementation, generalizability, interpreting impact estimates, and sharing study data are available on https://www.ies.ed.gov.

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.