University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

In multisite randomized trials of education interventions, researchers are often interested in several inferential goals: estimating treatment effects for each site, ranking these effects, and studying the distributions of treatment effects. This project will explore optimal methods to achieve these inferential goals. Through a comprehensive simulation study, two strategies and their combined effects will be assessed: the use of flexible semiparametric modeling to shape the prior distributio...

 The goal of this project is to conduct validity research on a new measure intended for students in grades 2-8, the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT): Spatial Assessment, which was developed in collaboration with Riverside Insights and the digital design company Digital Artefacts. This assessment measures students' spatial reasoning skills and is used to inform instructional planning and evaluation. Spatial reasoning is critical to student achievement, particularly in early math skills. At l...

This project developed and tested the Integrated Literacy Study Group (ILSG), a web-based professional development intervention designed to assist teachers in delivering high-quality reading instruction to elementary school students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Students with EBD are likely to experience significant reading difficulties, which is strongly correlated with low academic achievement, school dropout, conduct and social problems, and unemployment. Many of these ch...