education program areas
Teaching quality
SRI Education studies what makes teaching effective and how policies can ensure students have equitable access to high-quality teaching.
We have led more than a dozen rigorous, large-scale, randomized controlled trials of teacher coaching and professional development programs. Our work focuses on teacher preparation, educator professional development and human capital management systems.
Recent work
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Evaluation of the Pathway to Academic Success Project
SRI studied the effectiveness of a promising program focused on secondary students’ academic English skills.
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Podcast: Re-imagining instructional quality and coaching
SRI’s Krystal Thomas discusses efforts to create supportive, equitable, and effective tools for educators.
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Developing and Validating a Practitioner Toolkit to Scale and Sustain Collaborative Data Inquiry
This is the first impact study of Data Wise, which supports educators in using collaborative data inquiry to drive continuous improvement of teaching and learning.
Our experts in teaching quality
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Ela Joshi
Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Mary M. Klute
Principal Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Candice Benge
Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Sara Rutherford-Quach
Principal Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Lauren J. Cassidy
Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Haiwen Wang
Senior Principal Education Researcher and Evaluation Methods Lead
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Katrina Woodworth
Director, Center for Education Research and Innovation, SRI Education
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Michelle W. Woodbridge
Exec. Director & Sr. Principal Researcher, Center for Learning & Development, SRI Education
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Erika Gaylor
Principal Senior Researcher and Early Childhood Program Leader, SRI Education
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Rebecca A. Schmidt
Senior Education Researcher, Data Services, SRI Education
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Katrina Laguarda
Senior Researcher, SRI Education
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Maddie Cincebeaux
Research Associate, SRI Education
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Hannah Kelly
Education Research, SRI Education
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Louise Yarnall
Senior Research Social Scientist, SRI Education
Recent reports and publications
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Measuring Data Use for Instructional Improvement: Development and Initial Testing of a Teacher Survey and Instructional Team Meeting Log
This report describes the development and initial validation of instruments to measure collaborative data inquiry practices within school-based teams.
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Using the Reimagining Instructional Coaching Framework in the Development of Pre-K Classroom Observation Tools
SRI Education conducted a formative evaluation to examine a new observational tool’s alignment with the Reimagining Instructional Coaching framework.
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UC Irvine Writing Project’s Pathway to Academic Success Program: An Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Expansion Grant Evaluation
SRI researchers measured student outcomes on the Analytic Writing Continuum for Literary Analysis (AWC-LA). Despite disruptions to program implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the study found positive effects on student writing quality, conventions, and productivity.