Libby Pier
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Libby Pier
Director of Impact,
Education Analytics
Libby Pier is director of impact at Education Analytics, a Madison-based educational research and data science nonprofit. She oversees project, knowledge, and people management for the research team, including internal research initiatives and external research projects that inform the statistics and metrics Education Analytics designs, computes, and reports in dynamic, user-centered platforms. She formerly taught 8th, 9th, and 10th grade English in Los Angeles through Teach For America. Pier earned her MA in urban education from Loyola Marymount Universit and a PhD in learning sciences with a focus on quantitative methods from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Publications by Libby Pier
Evidence From Interim Assessments in California
At the first anniversary of school closures due to COVID-19, nearly half of the K–12 students in the U.S. were attending schools that were either fully remote or offering hybrid instruction, with more than 70 percent of California students attending…
Evidence from the CORE Districts
The CORE Districts in California conducted a survey to measure K-12 students’ social-emotional well-being during the pandemic. Results indicate that students’ personal and interpersonal well-being rated lower than their learning environments.…
This article assesses confusion due to negative wording on social-emotional learning (SEL) assessments using mixture IRT models. Results based on student self-reports show confusion biasing scores, especially in Grades 3-5, and correlational…
Evidence From the First Large-Scale Panel Student Survey
Self-report surveys are used to track students’ social-emotional development. This large-scale panel survey reveals that self-efficacy, social awareness, and self-management decrease after Grade 6, except for growth mindset. Female students report…