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Happy New Year from Empirical Education

To ring in the new year, we want to share this two-minute video with you. It comprises highlights from 2022 from each person on our team. We hope you like it. Cheers to a healthy and prosperous 2023!

My colleagues appear in this order in the video.

Happy New Year photo by Sincerely Media

2022-12-15

Work has Started on Analysis of Texas Educator Evaluation (T-TESS) Pilot

Empirical Education, through its contract with the REL Southwest, has begun the data collection process for an analysis of the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) pilot conducted by the Texas Education Agency. This is announced on the IES site. Empirical’s Senior Research Scientist Val Lazarev is leading the analysis, which will focus on the elements and components of the system to better understand what T-TESS is measuring and provide alternative approaches to forming summative or composite scores.

2015-06-05
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