Spyros Konstantopoulos

The purpose of this researcher training program was to increase the number of researchers with training in the planning, design, execution, and interpretation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in education sciences necessary to carry out trials and increase the number who actually carry out RCTs in education. This training program prepared current education researchers to plan, design, conduct, and interpret randomized control trials (RCTs). This program built off of two former training...

Well-executed randomized experiments provide the strongest evidence about causal effects of educational interventions, products, and services. Consequently, they have a crucial role to play in establishing a base of knowledge for the improvement and reform of American education. Yet the number of individuals with the knowledge and experience necessary to design, implement, analyze, and interpret randomized field experiments in education is surprisingly small. A training institute aimed at fa...

This project will study the impact of Indiana's statewide Diagnostic Assessment Intervention on changes in teachers' instructional behaviors and on K-8 student performance on state accountability tests using a randomized control design. It will also examine whether variation in implementation of the Diagnostic Assessment Intervention is associated with differences in impacts and whether school, teacher or student characteristics modify the effects of the intervention on student test scores u...