Libby Pier
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Libby Pier
Director of Impact,
Education Analytics
Libby Pier is research manager at Education Analytics, a nonprofit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, that conducts sophisticated statistical research to solve complex, pressing problems facing public education in the U.S. Pier received her PhD in learning sciences from the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
updated 2021
Publications by Libby Pier
This paper illustrates the application of mixture IRT models to evaluate the possibility of respondent confusion due to the negative wording of certain items on a social-emotional learning (SEL) assessment. Using actual student self-report ratings…
This brief applies value-added models to student surveys in the CORE Districts to explore whether social-emotional learning (SEL) surveys can be used to measure effective classroom-level supports for SEL. The authors find that classrooms differ in…
School value-added models are increasingly used to measure schools’ contributions to student success. At the same time, policymakers and researchers agree that schools should support students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) as well as academic…
Evidence from the CORE Districts
Mounting evidence demonstrates that social-emotional skills are important for students’ academic and life success, yet there is limited evidence on how these skills develop over time and how this development varies across student subgroups. This…