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In light of the changing public health situation around COVID-19, SREE's Board of Directors voted to cancel the March 2020 SREE conference.
Abt Global is a proud sponsor of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2020 Spring Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is Practical Significance and Meaningful Effects: Learning and Communicating What Matters.
Abt staff will present the following:
Oral Presentations:
March 12 - 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Salon 7
Symposium: Conceptual Issues and Practical Examples of Implementing Bayesian Analyses of Impact Evaluations of Education Interventions
Organizer: Cristofer Price, Abt Global
Application of a Bayesian Analysis – An Example from Analysis of a Text-messaging-based Advising Intervention with Guidance on How to Replicate the Results
Cristofer Price, Tamara Linkow, Hannah Miller, and Amanda Parsad, Abt Global
March 13 - 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Salon 6
Symposium: Recent Improvements to the What Works Clearinghouse
Finding Everything that Works: Accessing and Using What Works Clearinghouse Source Data
Michael Frye, Allan Porowski, and Yuhe Gu, Abt Global
March 13 - 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Salon 7
Paper Session: Impact of Job Training and Youth Employment Programs
Training Duration and Earnings Impacts: Evidence from a Healthcare Career Pathways Program Evaluation
Daniel Litwok, Laura Peck, and Douglas Walton, Abt Global
March 13 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Salon 1-4
Keynote Address: Practical Significance and Meaningful Effects: Interpreting Null Effects, Confidence Intervals, and Various Related Issues that Matter for Evaluation in Practice
Organizer and Moderator: Laura Peck, Abt Global
March 13 - 4:45 - 6:15 p.m. | Salon 7
Symposium: Unpacking the Logic Model: A Discussion of Mediators and Antecedents of Educational Outcomes from the Investing in Innovation (i3) program
Discussant: Anne Wolf, Abt Global
March 13 - 4:45 - 6:15 p.m. | Studio E
Paper Session: Accessing and Paying for Higher Education
Experimental Evidence that Wide-Brush Nudging Does Not Help At-Risk First-Year College Students’ Academic Outcomes
Dan Fitzpatrick, Western Michigan University; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University; and Austin Nichols, Abt Global
Poster Presentations
March 12 – 3: 45 – 4:45 p.m. | Foyer Group E
Selecting Districts and Schools for Impact Studies in Education: A Simulation Study of Different Methods
Daniel Litwok, Azim Shivji, Abt Global; Rob Olsen, Westat
March 13 - 6:15 - 7:15 p.m. | Foyer Group D
Advantages and Drawbacks of Grade Band Assignment: Early Observations from a Work in Progress RCT Testing the Impact of Teacher PD
John Hitchcock, Abt Global
*Presenter indicated in bold.
Insights and Impact
Success Boston: Evaluating Transition Coaching for College Success
A 2008 report showed only 35 percent of Boston public school graduates who had enrolled in college had completed a postsecondary credential within seven years of graduation. To improve completion rates, the Boston Foundation, the city of Boston, Boston…
Descriptive and Analytical Career Pathways Project
Over the last 30 years, adults in the United States with a high school education or less have experienced stagnating wages and relatively high unemployment, while those with postsecondary credentials enjoyed economic gains (Autor, 2015; Carnevale et al.,…
Career Pathways: What We Know So Far and Options for Closing Gaps in Knowledge
Career pathways strategies offer articulated education and training steps between occupations in an industry sector, combined with support services, to enable individuals to enter and exit at various levels and to advance over time to higher skills,…
New Evidence on What Works in Education
Abt Global releases evaluation report from the $1.3 billion Investing in Innovation Education program.
First Nationally Representative Study of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Programs in 20 Years Offers a Treasure Trove of Data
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs provide early childhood education, social and support services to culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and seasonal farmworker families and their children. Since the last nationally representative study of MSHS was conducted almost 20 years ago, there’s an urgent need for an update on MSHS programs and centers, and the farmworker families they serve. Changes in migration patterns, immigration policies and climate conditions may be affecting these children and families in as yet unknown ways, and the MSHS program may have to adapt to their changing needs.