Methods Used to Estimate Achievement Effects in Personalized Learning Schools. Working Paper WR-1061-BMGF

The purpose of this document is to describe the methods RAND used to analyze achievement for 23 personalized learning (PL) schools for the 2012-13 through 2013-14 academic years. This work was performed at the request of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), as part of a multi-year evaluation contract. The 23 schools were selected from a larger portfolio of PL schools funded directly or indirectly by BMGF because they implemented PL school-wide during both of the two academic years and they also administered Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) both years.