Ben Backes

Presentations from CALDER experts at 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference

Heading to Seattle for #2025APPAM next week? Be sure to check out presentations from CALDER experts @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @brbackes.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social. Click here to learn more about the conference: www.appam.org/conference-e...

06.11.2025 15:44 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Figure 4 from CALDER Working Paper 318-0525

New CALDER working paper by @zeyuxu.bsky.social & @brbackes.bsky.social finds that in 2-year colleges in KY, HS GPA is a stronger predictor of gateway course success than test scores-- though neither has very strong predictive power alone. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4iNTibV

01.05.2025 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Signal boosting this as we are looking for 1-2 more papers. Please get in touch if you're thinking of submitting something on teacher/school VA to APPAM!

07.04.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am very interested if not too late!

06.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does departmentalized instruction (DI) in elementary school actually help students better transition into middle school? Check out our new CALDER paper by @brbackes.bsky.social, James Cowan, & @cedr.bsky.social to learn about the impacts of DI on long-term achievement in MA.

👉 bit.ly/3FNAX0N

31.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

Scholar Douglas Harris Debuts New ‘Wikipedia’ of K–12 Research As cuts threaten insights into K–12 schools, the veteran researcher is helping to build a compendium of education insights.

Interview w/ Doug Harris about the new @aefpweb.bsky.social Live Handbook (the Wikipedia of education research):

www.the74million.org/article/scho...

24.03.2025 12:49 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Honored to have been a part of this (livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...) and so impressed with the presentation / website design of the final product!

12.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The thing that moves the needle is cleaning everyone's data, which leads to a narrowing in the effect distribution, even as modeling choices continue to differ. This makes sense - we don't teach or discuss standardized/best data-cleaning practices. So there's big variance in how we do it.

25.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 63    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 6

Mend, Don’t End, the Institute for Education Sciences The nation needs more education research, not an end to it. Here are five ideas for a more strategic, agile, relevant and impact-driven federal agency

Some thoughts in The74 (w/ Ashley, @rbnlake.bsky.social, & Andy) about the "shock and awe" at IES, the IES mission, and how we move forward more constructively.

www.the74million.org/article/mend...

21.02.2025 20:08 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1