English Learner Progress Models and the Quality of English Language Programs Project Partners
State leadership team: Seven state education agencies (SEA) participated in this project: Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin. The seven states serve approximately 500,000 English learners. State team members guided decision-making on processes and products of the project, shared emerging issues related to English learner (EL) policies/programs and Every Student Succeeds Act implementation, and ensured continuous improvements in design and delivery of high-quality products. The participating states were represented by senior SEA staff members in the areas of EL programs, assessment, accountability, and data/reporting.
Project management partner: CCSSO served as the project management partner for this project. Fen Chou, CCSSO’s program director of assessment standards, served as the lead and the project co-principal investigator.
Research partners: A team of national experts conducted research activities with advice from the state leadership teams and provided technical assistance to participating states. The research team included Pete Goldschmidt, professor, California State University Northridge; Mark Hansen, associate professor, University of California, Los Angeles and the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST); and Maria Santos, consultant/senior advisor. In addition, the research team was supported by an EL Technical Advisory Group, which is comprised of prominent researchers on EL technical issues and state assessment experts and provided input and advice on the project design, development, implementation, and resource dissemination.
EL technical advisory group: Experts who have served on this group since the grant project began in 2019: Tim Boals, WIDA, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Melissa Castillo, U.S. Department of Education; Fen Chou, CCSSO; H. Gary Cook, WIDA, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Pete Goldschmidt, California State University, Northridge; Mark Hansen, UCLA-CRESST; Megan Hopkins, University of California, San Diego; Sheryl Lazarus, National Center on Educational Outcomes; Nirupa Mathew, Smarter Balanced Assessment; Scott Norton, CCSSO; Delia Pompa, Migration Policy Institute; Sharon Prestridge, Mississippi Department of Education; Maria Santos, Consultant; Edynn Sato, WIDA, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Vitaliy Shyyan, WIDA; Cat Still, CRESST, ELPA21; Martha Thurlow, NCEO; Ilana Umansky, University of Oregon; Hayley Weddle, University of Pittsburgh.
External evaluator: Com-Link, LLC served as the external evaluator for this project. Jane Nell Luster, president of Com-Link, LLC, brought more than 20 years of program and project evaluation experience.
For questions about this project, please email communications@ccsso.org.
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