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

Several Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) community members are presenting at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) this week. Check out their excellent contributions to the conference below:

Thursday, September 19

9.00 am to 10.30 pm
Location: Harborside Foyer (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: 3G. – Exploring Predictive Validity and Disparities in Education: From Test Scores to Behavior Screeners
Presentation Title: Mapping the Research Base for Universal Behavior Screeners
Presenting Author: Kathleen Lane
Authors: Katie Pelton*

12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
Location: Kent AB (4, Baltimore Mariott Waterfront)
Session Title: 5F. – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Educational Measurement and Evaluation
Presentation Title: Low-Cost Measurement with Large Language Models: An Application of Few-Shot Classification in Educational Evaluations
Author: Claudia Ventura*
Presenting Author: Kylie Anglin*

2.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Location: Kent AB (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: Open Science Affinity Group Panel: How Do We Move Open Science Forward in Educational Research?
Panelists: Kara Finnigan, Elizabeth Tipton, Sean Grant
Moderator: D. Betsy McCoach*

Friday, September 20

9.00 am to 10.30 pm
Location: Harborside Foyer (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: 7H. – Advancing Measurement and Assessment in Special Education
Presentation Title: Measurement Invariance and Predictive Validity of a Free-Access Universal Screening Tool: The SRSS-IE
Presenting Author: Kathleen Lane
Authors: Katie Pelton*

1.15 pm to 2.15 pm
Location: Harborside Foyer (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: 8D. Organization of Schools and Systems
Presentation Title: Evaluation of a Brief Intervention: Achievement Gaps and Reliability
Authors: Joselyn Perez*, D. Betsy McCoach*

1.15 pm to 2.15 pm
Location: Kent AB (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: 8F. Research Methods
Presentation Title: Deciphering Hyperparameter Choices in Machine Learning for Propensity Score Estimation: A Systematic Review of GBM and Random Forest Methods
Authors: Huibin Zhang, Walter Leite, Zachary Collier*, Kamal Chawla, Lingchen Kong, YongSeok Lee, Jia Quan
Presenting Author: Huibin Zhang

1.15 pm to 2.15 pm
Location: Harborside Foyer (4, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront)
Session Title: 8F. Research Methods
Presentation Title: Exploring Estimates of Multilevel Reliability for School Based Behavioral Measures
Authors: Katie Pelton*, D. Betsy McCoach*

2.15 p.m. – 3.45 p.m.
Location: Kent AB (4, Baltimore Mariott Waterfront)
Session Title: 9E. Advancing Educational Outcomes through Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics
Chair: Kylie Anglin*

*RMME Community member

Multiple RMME Community members participated in the 2024 Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference this June. Hosted by RMME faculty member, Dr. Betsy McCoach, the M3 Conference is a must-attend event for research methodologists, statisticians, statistical modelers, quantitative analysts, measurement experts, and more! Check out the photos below of RMME Community members in action at M3 2024!

Join UConn’s RMME Programs and all of the attendees of the 2024 Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference this June on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, CT, from June 24 – 26. Hosted by RMME faculty member, Dr. Betsy McCoach, the M3 Conference is a must-attend event for research methodologists, statisticians, statistical modelers, quantitative analysts, measurement experts, and more! Check out this sneak peek of presentations by RMME Community members this year! We hope to see you in Storrs this June!

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RMME PhD alumna, Dr. Jessica Flake, presents her “Measurement, Not Schmeasurement” talk at the 2024 annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, in San Francisco, California. Join Dr. Flake on Thursday, May 23, at 9am, for this outstanding presentation!

Join RMME Community members for multiple outstanding research presentations at the 2024 Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development. This year, the Wallace Symposium will be hosted on the University of Connecticut’s main campus, in Storrs, CT (and the home of RMME Programs). So, remember to join us for these excellent presentations with RMME Community members this month!

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RMME/CEPARE Colloquium

Lessons from the Field: Working with Practitioners to Create Opportunities for Educational Research

Dr. Robert Schoen

Florida State University

Friday, April 19, at 11AM ET

Gentry 144

Dr. Robert Schoen is an associate professor of mathematics education in the School of Teacher Education and the associate director of the Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University. Dr. Rob Schoen has directed more than one-dozen randomized controlled trials of educational interventions in applied settings. He will share stories and examples about how he decides what research opportunities to pursue and some of the strategies he has used to support successful implementation of those studies over a long period.

*Please contact Dr. Sarah D. Newton at sarah.newton@uconn.edu for access information to remotely attend this talk*

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