About Our Research
The power of insight, the promise of results
The research conducted by the Kingsbury Center is informing today’s educational system, giving policymakers, researchers, and educators powerful new information to make critical decisions about how policies and practices affect students. The result? A smarter, more responsive education system for everyone.
Standards & Accountability
Working to inform national policy, the Center conducts ongoing research to explore how policies related to education reform efforts impact school systems, teachers and students.
- Proficiency
- Accountability Illusion
- Proficiency Illusion
- State of Proficiency
- Achievement Gaps & the Proficiency Trap
- Report
- Data Gallery
- Test Score Comparisons
- NWEA State Test Linking Studies
- Concordance Project: An ongoing investigation into the feasibility of linking schools’ state assessment results across several states to the NWEA scale in order to permit cross-state comparisons of schools.
Teaching & Learning
We are also researching the ways in which assessment can be used in a manner that improves teaching and instruction by providing information to educators that can help teachers improve their instructional practices and schools identify their most effective teachers.
- Professional Development
Educational Equity
Kingsbury Center researchers are interested in using growth data to more accurately measure achievement gaps and better monitor the effectiveness of efforts to close them.
- Achievement Gaps
- High Achievers
- Achievement Gaps & the Proficiency Trap
- Achievement Gaps: An Examination of Differences in Student Achievement and Growth
- Summer Loss
Use of Data
Our research in this area is shedding light on ways to conduct educational experiments and quasi-experiments to evaluate schools and the effectiveness of educational interventions.
- Virtual Comparison Groups
- Value Added Research