Members of the RMME Community present at the 2025 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)! Be sure to check out all of this outstanding RMME Community work in Denver, Colorado, from Tuesday, April 22, through Sunday, April 27–we look forward to seeing you all there!
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Will you be in New York, NY for this year’s annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA)? If so, be sure to check out the RMME Programs Exhibits booth (#10) in the New York Marriott Marquis’s 5th floor West Side Ballroom! The exhibits are open from 8am – 5pm on Friday (3/7) and Saturday (3/8).
This is an excellent opportunity to meet with RMME’s Associate Director of Online Programs, Dr. Sarah D. Newton, and ask any questions you have about RMME Programs! So, feel free to stop by and chat–we would love to meet you!
RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium
Adventitious Error Everywhere
Dr. Paul De Boeck
The Ohio State University
Friday, February 7, at 11 AM ET
https://tinyurl.com/rmme-PDeBoeck
Adventitious error is a concept introduced by Wu and Browne (Psychometrika, 2015) to explain imperfect goodness of fit of covariance structure models (CSMs, i.e., factor models, SEM). The paper was published together with critical remarks from the reviewers. In my presentation I will discuss, illustrate, and speculate about the potential of adventitious error beyond CSM, (a) as a unitary framework to understand and deal with underestimated inferential uncertainty regarding relations between variables, heterogeneity in meta-analysis, violations of measurement invariance, individual differences in the validity of tests, and (b) as a joint framework for reliability and validity. The presentation is partly based on De Boeck, DeKay, and Pek (Psychometrika, 2024, 89, 1055-1073).
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RMME is seeking qualified instructors to teach graduate-level courses in Research Methods, Educational Measurement, Quantitative Methods, and Evaluation. Connecticut residents are especially encouraged to apply! Interested candidates should apply here.
RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium
Challenges in Time-varying Causal Effect Moderation Analysis in Mobile Health
Dr. Walter Dempsey
University of Michigan
Friday, January 24, at 11 AM ET
https://tinyurl.com/rmme-Dempsey
Twin revolutions in wearable technologies and smartphone-delivered digital health interventions have significantly expanded the accessibility and uptake of mobile health (mHealth) interventions in multiple domains of health sciences. Sequentially randomized experiments called micro-randomized trials (MRTs) have grown in popularity as a means to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of mHealth intervention components. MRTs have motivated a new class of causal estimands, termed “causal excursion effects”, that allow health scientists to answer important scientific questions about how intervention effectiveness may change over time or be moderated by individual characteristics, time-varying context, or past responses. In this talk, we present two new tools for causal effect moderation analysis. First, we consider a meta-learner perspective, where any supervised learning algorithm can be used to assist in the estimation of the causal excursion effect. We will present theoretical results and accompanying simulation experiments to demonstrate relative efficiency gains. Practical utility of the proposed methods is demonstrated by analyzing data from a multi-institution cohort of first year medical residents in the United States. Second, we will consider effect moderation with tens or hundreds of potential moderators. In this setting, it becomes necessary to use the observed data to select a simpler model for effect moderation and then make valid statistical inference. We propose a two-stage procedure to solve this problem that leverages recent advances in post-selective inference using randomization. We will discuss asymptotic validity of the conditional selective inference procedure and the importance of randomization. Simulation studies verify the asymptotic results. We end with an analysis of an MRT for promoting physical activity in cardiac rehabilitation to demonstrate the utility of the method.
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UConn’s Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs Community is so proud of our Fall 2024 RMME Master’s degree program and Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program graduates! We are thrilled to celebrate this educational milestone with you all and look forward to watching you grow as outstanding RMME alumni and professionals! Congratulations, from the entire Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation Community!
The Rhode Island Society for Technology in Education (RISTE), jointly with the Rhode Island Science Teachers Association (RISTA) and the Rhode Island Math Teachers Association (RIMTA), are hosting STEM Super Saturday! This annual event for educators will take place at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center, in Providence, RI, on January 11, 2025.
UConn’s RMME Programs are thrilled to participate in, and support the event, by hosting an exhibits booth for attendees! So, if you will be there, be sure to stop by for an opportunity to chat personally with Dr. Sarah D. Newton, the Associate Director of RMME Online Programs! We cannot wait to see you there!
RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium
Recent Lessons on Mixing Mail and Web Data Collection Modes in Household Surveys
Dr. Kristen Olson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Friday, December 6, at 11 AM ET
https://tinyurl.com/rmme-Olson
Survey designs are increasingly incorporating self-administered modes – namely mail and web – to counter decreasing response rates and increasing costs in interviewer-administered surveys. In this talk, I will cover recent research related to mixing modes of self-administered data collection in household surveys, with a focus on designing for survey participation. I will explore theory for why sample members may select one self-administered mode over another, how modes affect response rates, representation and costs, and design decisions related to recruitment materials for mixed-mode surveys.
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RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium
Effects Across Time to Modeling States of a System: A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Modeling Social Science Data
Dr. Pascale Deboeck
University of Utah
Friday, November 15, at 11 AM ET
https://tinyurl.com/rmme-Deboeck
Modeling of repeated observations across time generally falls into one of two categories. The first is modeling observations as they change across time; that is, as a function of time. The second is to model the observations as they relate to prior observations; many common models in the social sciences are represented in this second category, including auto-regressive models, cross-lagged panel models, and latent difference score models. A less-common approach in this latter category are differential equation models. These models express relations between the state of observations and how they are changing. These models offer the opportunity to imagine change relations that may be commonly overlooked when modeling repeated measures. This talk will introduce the application of differential equation modeling to intensive, longitudinal data. Specific examples will include estimating derivatives from noisy data and the possibility of testing novel models of intraindividual dynamics.
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Multiple Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) community members are presenting at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) this week. Remember to check out these excellent presentations–we hope to see you there!
Wednesday, October 23
4:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Location: B117-119
Session Title: (Panel + AEA Sponsored Sessions)
Presentation Title: Amplifying and Empowering Voices through Evaluation Journals
Chair: Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead*
Presenters: Florence Etta/Laura Peck/Nicole Bowman (Lunaape/Mohican)/Ayesha Boyce/ Thomas Archibald/Daniel Balsaobre-Lorente/Michael A. Harnar/Sarah Mason/Hanh Cao Yu
Thursday, October 24
10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
Location: G131-132
Session Title: (Panel + Theories of Evaluation)
Presentation Title: What Happens When You Give Evaluators a Box of Crayons? Reflections on Visualizations of Evaluation Theory
Chair: Sebastian Lemire
Presenters: Christina Christie/Tarek Azzam/Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead*
Discussants: Melvin M. Mark
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: N/A
Session Title: Poster Reception #2 (Poster + Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building)
Presentation Title: 257 – Amplifying the voices of new Evaluation Capacity Builders: Lessons learned from transferring new skills and ideas into the workplace
Chair: Leslie A. Fierro*
Presenters: Emily Frost, Lashonda Williams/Renee Boyer/Jordyn J. Livingston
Discussants: Heather D. Codd/ Renee Boyer
Friday, October 25
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: C120-122
Session Title: (Multipaper + Health Evaluation)
Presentation Title: The Updated CDC Program Evaluation Framework: Revised to Meet Current and Future Public Health and Evaluation Needs
Presenters: Daniel P. Kidder/Heather Salvaggio/Elena Luna
Discussants: Leslie A. Fierro*
Authors: Daniel P. Kidder/Cassandra Davis/Destiny Bruce/Michael Kerzner
12:45 PM to 1:45 PM
Location: Exhibit Hall A
Session Title: Birds of a feather (STEM Education and Training)
Presentation Title: 62 – Amplifying the Voices of Multigenerational and Multidisciplinary STEM Evaluation Journeys – A Roundtable Bridge of Resources and Mentorship
Presenters: Kevin Keane/Clara M. Pelfrey/Breonte Guy/Leslie A. Fierro*/Carlos Romero/Alexandra Budenz/Robert Garcia/Rechelle Paranal
Facilitators: Rajiv R. Ramdat/Ciara C. Knight
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: Portland Ballroom 254
Session Title: (Roundtable + Research on Evaluation)
Presentation Title: What does it mean to be an evaluator?
Presenters: Doris Espelien/Dana J. Linnell/Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead*/Aileen M. Reid/Cherie M. Avent/Grettel Arias Orozco/ Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn
Authors: Doris Espelien/Dana J. Linnell/Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead*/Aileen M. Reid/Cherie M. Avent/Grettel Arias Orozco/ Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM PST
Location: B113-114
Session Title: (Think Tank + Use and Influence of Evaluation)
Presentation Title: The Critical Role of Equity and Inclusion in Defining Rigor: What It Takes to Reimagine Peer Review Journals
Chair: Hanh Cao Yu
Presenters: Rodney Hopson/Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead*
4:15 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: D133-134
Session Title: Building Evaluator Capacity and Competencies (Paper + Graduate Students and New Evaluators and Research on Evaluation)
Presentation Title: Doctoral Student Experiences with Research on Evaluation: Insights and Opportunities from a Collaborative Autoethnography
Presenters: Amanda Sutter*/ Valerie Marshall/Rachael Kenney/Allison Prieur/ Kari Ross Nelson/ Christine Liboon
*RMME Community member
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