The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Join the Ford School in welcoming Branko Milanovic, author of the forthcoming book, "Recent Trends in Global Income Inequality and Their Political Implications."
Free and open to the public. About the lecture: The presentation will address four topics: (1) why it is important to step up our use of evidence if we are to improve education outcomes; (2) strategies for engaging stakeholders in using and generating credible evidence; (3) the importance of adopting common standards for design and evidence standards; and (4) a proposal for a common evidence platform. About the speaker: Rebecca Maynard is a leading expert in program evaluation, including the design and conduct
Teachers are the most important in-school contributors to student achievement, but there is widespread concern that the rigidities of the public school system make it unresponsive to teacher quality. In this lecture Dr. Chingos will discuss three studies of how schools respond to differences in teacher effectiveness (as measured by value-added to student achievement), all of which are based on administrative data from the state of Florida. Mathew Chingos, Fellow, Brookings Institution Matthew M.
Join EPI's scholars at 27 roundtables, panels and poster sessions, and help us to celebrate Susan Dynarski's selection as the recipient of APPAM's Spencer Award for transformative work in education policy research.
Recommended - A- or higher in augmented PubPol 639: Quantitative Methods for Program Evaluation - Non Ford School Students contact the instructor for evaluation /...
Policy makers have long relied on quantitative analysis to inform their decision-making, and recent advances in data gathering and in computing have made quantitative analysis even more...
**Course will be held remotely, but 3117 Weill Hall will be reserved for students to use if they need access to the software**
*Note: Instructor consent...
**Course will be held remotely, but 3117 Weill Hall will be reserved for students to use if they need access to the software**
*Note: Instructor consent...
This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like...
his course is an introduction to programming and working in STATA, a core statistical program in the social sciences. In a variety of fields, STATA remains the baseline program for analysis, data management, and...
Experimentation is increasingly being used as a tool to inform policy decision-making in a wide range of areas, including education, health, energy, workplace design, consumer finance, voting, taxation, non-profits, charitable fundraising, among...
Policy makers have long relied on quantitative analysis to inform their decision-making, and recent advances in data gathering and in computing have made quantitative analysis even more...
