Now Available for Comment: WWC Study Review Protocol, Version 5.0

An item from the folks at IES about their What Works Clearinghouse.

The What Works Clearinghouse announces that the draft version of the Study Review Protocol, Version 5.0 is now ready for public comment. The WWC is asking for your help in ensuring that the protocol supports the review of research focused on a wide range of important student and teacher outcomes. The Study Review Protocol guides all studies reviewed under WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook, Version 5.0. This includes studies cited as evidence for U.S. Department of Education grant competitions, studies that were funded by the Department, and studies identified for systematic reviews of evidence. The WWC would especially like feedback on: Are there outcomes, or whole outcome domains, missing from the draft protocol that you would expect the WWC to review? Are there common, standardized measures used in research on mathematics or literacy related outcome domains that are missing from the draft protocol that you think should be added? Are there other measures, including those created by intervention developers, that, if not created by the same developers as the intervention being studied, could be used in research on mathematics or literacy related outcomes and that are missing from the draft protocol? Are there state assessments in mathematics or literacy related domains which have been administered in the past 25 years that should be included in the draft protocol? Please send any feedback on the draft changes to the Study Review Protocol, Version 5.0 can send comments to the WWC Help Desk at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/help by November 15, 2022. The WWC expects to post the final version of the Study Review Protocol in early 2023. The Institute of Education Sciences, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the nation’s leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation, statistics, and assessment.

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