Massachusetts early literacy screening assessment longitudinal database

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Description

A longitudinal database built by WestEd for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education linking grantee K–3 early literacy universal-screening scores with SIMS, MCAS, ACCESS for ELLs, and school- and district-level data.

Components

• Massachusetts early literacy screening assessment longitudinal database of grantee K–3 screening, SIMS, MCAS, and ACCESS data: WestEd, on behalf of DESE, is building what the report calls "a longitudinal database of early literacy assessment scores" linking student-level early literacy universal screening data from state grantees with SIMS, MCAS, and ACCESS for ELLs records and publicly available school- and district-level data. For 2020/21 and 2021/22 it includes benchmark scores for just over 35,000 unique K–3 students from 43 districts and 159 schools, about 10 percent of the state's K–3 population, across 11 screening assessments. (Mariann Lemke et al. (2023))

Claims

• Across beginning, middle, and end of year time periods, 52 percent of Massachusetts K–3 grantees' students were ever classified as at any level of reading risk, about 27 percent at the highest risk levels, and 12 to 18 percent as potentially at risk of dyslexia [+M]

Related Products and Programmes

• Massachusetts DESE early literacy screening assessment dataset
• Massachusetts early literacy screening assessment dataset linked with MCAS results

Key Sources

• Mariann Lemke, Dan Murphy, Aaron Soo Ping Chow, Hayley Spencer, and Angela Zhang. (2023). A First Look at Early Literacy Performance in Massachusetts: Results of Initial Analysis Based on State Grantee Literacy Screening Assessments. WestEd. https://www.WestEd.org

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title	Massachusetts early literacy screening assessment longitudinal database
description	A longitudinal database built by WestEd for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education linking grantee K–3 early literacy universal-screening scores with SIMS, MCAS, ACCESS for ELLs, and school- and district-level data.
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