Sophie Litschwartz

Test scores are ubiquitous in education research aimed at estimating the causal effects of programs, policies, and practices. However, test scores are also complex statistical objects that can create complications for causal analysis. The purpose of this project is to develop the Principal Investigator's (PI's) career as an education methodologist who combines the insights and frameworks of psychometrics and causal inference to tackle the methodological complications of doing causal analysis...

Harvard established the Partnering in Education Research (PIER) training program  to train doctoral students to conduct quantitative education policy analysis and to conduct collaborative research with education agencies.