Advanced Quantitative Methodology for Improving Educational Practice

The program trained fellows to be experts in quantitative methodology able to conduct rigorous education research to advance methodological and substantive knowledge, to be well-grounded in research on improving teaching and learning of mathematics in U.S. schools, and to train succeeding generations of methodologists and researchers focusing on education issues. Fellows took a core curriculum, including nine methodological courses, and received in-depth training in causal inference, statistical frameworks for hierarchical linear modeling and structural equation modeling, psychometric approaches of item response theory and generalizability theory, and strategies for measuring classroom practice and program implementation. 

Twenty fellows received funding support from this award and completed the training program.