Help us continue validating impacts for your students and schools.
An Independent Evaluation.
AIR is partnering with Abt Associates (Abt) to continue testing EWIMS as part of an independent evaluation. AIR will partner with districts serving up to 120 total high schools.
A lottery determines which year schools start implementing.
Half of the schools within each partnering district will start training in summer 2022 and implement EWIMS during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years. The other half will start two years later—starting training in summer 2024 and implementing EWIMS during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years—and continue business-as-usual practices for data use and dropout prevention during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years. We will use a lottery to determine the year in which each school will receive training and start implementing.
The lottery allows Abt to compare the outcomes of students enrolled in Grades 9 and 10 during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years in the schools that implemented EWIMS with those schools that start two years later. This approach has three advantages. First, it allows us to provide quality training and support for implementation to each group of schools. Second, it allows us to continue to validate the impact of EWIMS in partnering districts using a “gold standard” research design. Third, it allows us to scale-up implementation over time, applying lessons from earlier implementation to subsequent implementation within each district.
Data Collection.
Web-survey of school staff. In winter of 2024, the study team will administer a web-based survey to a small sample of staff in treatment and delayed-treatment schools assessing current data use and dropout prevention practices.
Staff feedback surveys and implementation documentation. Staff who attend training will be asked to complete brief feedback surveys. The study team will also collect tool usage data from the Early Insights Suite, feedback from logs completed by each EWIMS coach, and administer a brief survey to school leaders about any unanticipated costs they incurred while implementing EWIMS to support a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Administrative data collection. The study team will collect student administrative records from the district, including student background information and outcome data (enrollment, attendance, suspension, course grades, credits earned, graduation) for students enrolled in Grades 9 and 10 during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years and follow students as they progress through high school.