Kaitlyn Fitzgerald

This project will develop and rigorously test new visualizations of statistical and scientific information for use in evidence clearinghouses. There are many education clearinghouses, including the What Works Clearinghouse, Evidence for ESSA, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development, and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). These clearinghouses share an interest in (a) determining which programs have strong evidence, (b) synthesizing the findings of these studies, and (c) sharing this i...

Through this 2014 grant, MPES continued to provide doctoral students from a variety of disciplines the knowledge, expertise, and technical skills to conduct rigorous empirical research that is also usable and useful in the policy and practice worlds.