December 2015
MPES Colloquium Series Welcomes Lindsey E. Richland
Thursday, December 3rd 2015
12:30-1:30 PM
Annenberg 303
What is Higher Order Thinking in Mathematics, and Challenges in Ensuring Access for All
Please join us!
November 2015
MPES meets with Sean Reardon!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
12:30-1:45 PM
Annenberg Room 303
Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and applied statistical methods for educational research buy papers. In addition, he develops methods of measuring social and educational inequality (including the measurement of segregation and achievement gaps) and methods of causal inference in educational and social science research. Sean received his doctorate in education in 1997 from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, and has been a recipient of a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, a Carnegie Scholar Award, and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship.
See full talk flyer here.
October 2015
MPES’s Second Year Colloquium Series Begins with Manuel Espinoza!
October 8th, 2015
12:30-1:30 pm
Annenberg 303
Manuel Luis Espinoza is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver in the School of Education and Human Development, where he works on issues of learning and civil rights. He is a child of desegregation (Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1, 1973) and a Chicano ethnographer and philosopher of education working in the scholarly tradition that emerged during the 20th century struggle against racism in the United States write my essay for me. Building on his work as a postdoctoral fellow with the National Academy of Education (2012-2013), he and his undergraduate research team are developing a social interactional and legal approach to the study of learning and educational dignity.
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Watch a recording of the talk here!
May 2015
Former MPES Fellow and Statistics PhD Candidate Arend Kuyper presents, “An Alternative Method for Teacher Evaluation When Using Student Test Score Data”
Join us in Annenberg 347, 12:30 – 1:30 PM for his talk!
Abstract:
When using student achievement data for evaluation of teachers, we are limited to either using value-added or student growth percentile techniques. We are proposing an alternative method that conceptualizes the process differently. We anchor our method in Item Response Theory (IRT). IRT methodologies are well established and already form the basis of most large scale assessments. For example, even though we are unable to directly observe a student’s math ability we can estimate her math ability by observing her responses to a series of well aligned questions. In much the same way, we are unable to directly observe a teacher’s instructional ability http://smartessaywriter.net/. Our proposed method requires a set of well aligned questions or items that can be used to estimate a teacher’s instructional ability. Our conceptualization would designate the teacher’s students as those items. By leveraging well established IRT practices, we can analyze responses to the items (students) and estimate a teacher’s instructional ability.
Wellesley’s Phillip Levine presents “Early childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons From Sesame Street”
Phillip Levine
Wellesley College
A. Barton Hepburn and Katherine Coman
Professor of Economics
Friday, May 15, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
617 Library Place
April 2015
MPES Alumnus Aaron Sojourner visits NU!
Colloquium Talk Details:
Where: Annenberg 303
When: 12:30 pm
Sojourner is a labor economist and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on three areas: (1) policies to promote efficient and equitable development of human capital with a focus on early childhood and K-12 education systems, (2) effects of labor-market institutions on economic productivity and in politics, and (3) behavioral economic approaches to consumer financial decisions. Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Industrial Relations have published his work.
Sojourner has a wide range of policy experience and community service. He serves on Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’s Cradle-to-K Cabinet advising the city on how to reduce racial disparities through policies affecting children’s first 3 years. He also serves as a research associate at IZA, on the Human Capital Research Collaborative’s steering committee, and as a director of Spring Bank, a community bank in the Bronx and Harlem, N.Y. In the past uk essay writing service, he served as an adviser to the Office of the Illinois State Treasurer and as a fellow in the U.S. Senate’s Labor Policy Office.
Sojourner completed his PhD in economics at Northwestern University in 2009 and was pre-doctoral fellow in the university’s Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences. He also has an MA in public policy analysis from the University of Chicago and a BA in history from Yale University.
MPES fellows meet with David Deming.
Details:
Meeting: 10 am, Annenberg G02
Talk: 12:30 pm, Annenberg 303
David Deming is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses broadly on the economics of education, with a particular interest in the impact of education policies on long-term outcomes other than test scores.
March 2015
March 31st, 2015
MPES fellows meet with sociologist Kate Phillippo to discuss her research on selective public high school choice policy in Chicago.
March 10th, 2015
Jesse Rothstein Meets with MPES fellows to talk about uk essay writing service Value-Added Models
February 2015
MPES Director Prof. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach gives talk “School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement” Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Details:
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
3:30-5:00 PM
617 Library Place
Harvard’s Professor Jon Star meets with MPES fellows:
Thursday, February 5th, 12:30-1:30 pm
Annenberg 303
In his talk, Star will cover the findings from IES- and NSF-funded studies investigating students’ learning of algebra and will also offer reflections on challenges inherent in the move from lab to classroom.
Jon Star is currently the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Associate Professor in Human Development and Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2001.
January 2015
Taylor Martin meets MPES fellows!
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Taylor Martin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Currently, she is examining how mobile and social learning environments provided online and in person influence content learning in mathematics, engineering and computational thinking. Taylor Martin received her Ph. D. in educational psychology from Stanford. she also holds an M. S. in cognitive psychology, and a B.A. in linguistics.