Use NAEP 2024 results, available January 2025, for better estimates of academic recovery¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 mixed) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The authors recommend waiting for the NAEP Spring 2024 results as the best source on academic recovery, because NAEP "rely on the same NAEP assessment in 2022 and 2024" and use "large, random samples of students that are representative of each state and of the nation as a whole." This addresses the comparability and representativeness weaknesses of both ERS and NWEA data.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires NAEP assessment data collected in both 2022 and 2024 with the same assessment, and state- and nationally representative random samples of students.

Constraints¶

• Estimates are only available from January 2025; until then the reconciled ERS and NWEA figures are the best available.

Target Learners¶

• Grade 3-8 students in US public schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• Measuring post-pandemic academic recovery in math and reading achievement

Claims¶

• The math discrepancy between NWEA and ERS recovery estimates is largely driven by differences in their samples of districts [~W]

Related Strategies¶

• Educational leaders should weigh the demographic shift in tested students and other contextual data when planning student growth and recovery support

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Dan Dewey, Erin Fahle, Tom Kane, Megan Kuhfeld, Sean F. Reardon. (2024). Reconciling Recent Evidence on Academic Recovery in the US from 2022 to 2023. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/reconciling-recent-evidence-on-academic-recovery-in-the-us-from-2022-to-2023/