Blog post by Erin Kabba LXD Research’s Empowering Educators: A Guide to Evaluating a Product Logic Model aims to assist educators in understanding and evaluating logic models created by companies… Read More »Empowering Educators: A Guide to Evaluating a Product Logic Model
Four Proven Ways to Improve Your Impact Study Recruitment Strategy Written with Julia Bibko, Ed.M. Whether you’re planning your first impact study or a veteran researcher, effective recruitment is critically… Read More »Tips for School Research Recruitment
A new set of non-regulatory guidance came from the US Department of Education on September 28, 2023, about using evidence to purchase educational products. The guidance emphasizes What Works Clearinghouse… Read More »LXD Research ESSA Recognition
In today’s landscape of evidence-based studies assessing the effectiveness of educational products in schools, it becomes increasingly crucial to familiarize ourselves with the tools and resources used to evaluate the… Read More »Evidence for ESSA updated their protocols, what changed?
Why Educators Cannot Only Rely on Established Review Organizations for Product Research Validation Co-Author: Apoorva Shivaram, Northwestern University Education leadership is tightening its flexibility by using curriculum products that do… Read More »Struggling to find a product review on WWC?
\You’ve worked hard all year to provide your students with the instruction and practice they need to become strong readers. As the end of the school year nears, you may… Read More »New Reports Show High-Quality Phonics Instruction Reduces the Summer Slide
Co-authors Rachel Schechter, Ph.D. founder of LXD Research & Kathleen Richards, Literacy and Language Learning Scientist Figuring out all this “Science of Reading” stuff could take years. Students’ scores are… Read More »New Phonics K-5 Rubric
You know about the Every Student Succeeds Act. You know that there are tiers of evidence involved. What are they? What are they referring to? How do I ask a… Read More »ESSA Levels of Evidence Explained
This is a question that comes up all of the time. What does it mean if a product says it’s research-based? And what is different about a product that is… Read More »What is the difference between research-based and evidence-based?
What is it, and how do we use it? Guest co-author: Apoorva Shivaram There are over 1,400 tools used to assist students with their learning in any given school (this… Read More »Save Time with this Evidence-based Research Review Framework