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About Steve Rees

Leader and founder of the company and its K12 Measures team. Author of curriculum for our courses and workshops. Also author of "Mismeasuring Schools' Vital Signs" (with Jill Wynns), published in September 2022. Analyst with a special talent for visual interpretation. Loves leading exploratory data analysis missions. Hates waste of time, money and human effort.

How much progress do the CAASPP results reveal?

How often have you been asked: “Tell me whether our [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:40:33-07:00June 19th, 2018|accountability, assessment|0 Comments

This scholar knows how long-term English learners are created

If your district serves students who you consider to be [...]

By |2018-05-30T12:19:27-07:00May 30th, 2018|English learners, research|0 Comments

Stale data in West Contra Costa USD’s LCAP triggers legal challenge

Wendy Lopez and Kateryn Ochoa, have a problem with their [...]

Pockets of 11th graders who refused to take the CAASPP

We Californians would like to think we’re special. Parents and [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:46:02-07:00April 27th, 2018|accountability, assessment|0 Comments

What could young analysts add to your district’s team?

I spent the afternoon of February 12 at Stanford to [...]

By |2018-02-21T20:16:21-08:00February 21st, 2018|capacity building, district management, research|0 Comments

Mismeasurement of gaps in LCAPs: bad arithmetic, bad logic

The serious subject of gaps has been a hot one [...]

By |2020-01-08T07:40:39-08:00February 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, dashboard, gap analysis, LCAP, Policy|0 Comments

California’s 2017 CAASPP trouble is common to most SBAC states

California’s troublingly flat result on the 2017 CAASPP English/language arts [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:51:46-07:00January 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, Policy|0 Comments

Two researchers’ works on gap analysis deserve attention

I confess. I read research. When looking for guidance, for [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:54:46-07:00January 5th, 2018|gap analysis, research|0 Comments

CERA 2017 conference notes: my favorite presentation

Todd Langager, from San Diego CoE, presenting at CERA, [...]

By |2019-08-23T14:01:45-07:00December 29th, 2017|conference, event|0 Comments

Time to see gaps from new angles

When we discuss achievement gaps or gaps in opportunities to [...]

By |2017-11-01T21:54:50-07:00November 1st, 2017|assessment, data viz, gap analysis, research|0 Comments