Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2021 Conference

Abt Global is a proud sponsor of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2021 Conference. The year’s theme is the Fierce Urgency of Knowledge: Education Evidence for Reimagining and Reckoning. The theme encourages immediate action to leverage evidence of effective policies and programs to push for systemic changes to better support educators and students, and to counteract inequity.

Abt staff will participate in the following sessions:

September 27 | 2:45 – 4:15 p.m. | Room A

Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes of Social & Behavioral Outcomes
Abt Presenting Author: Sandra Wilson, Brian Freeman

Improving the Design of Evaluations that Include Students, Teachers, and Schools: An Empirical Investigation of Design Parameters
Abt Co-Author: Eric Hedberg

Design Parameters for Planning Multilevel Randomized Trials and Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Size on Social & Behavioral Outcomes
Abt Co-Author: Sandra Wilson

September 28 | 8:15 – 9:45 a.m. | Room A

Selecting Districts and Schools for Impact Studies in Education: A Simulation Study of Different Methods
Abt Presenting Author: Austin Nichols
Abt Co-Author: Daniel Litwok

September 28 | 8:15 – 9:45 a.m. | Room I

The Effects of Teacher-student Demographic Matching on Social-emotional Learning
Abt Co-Author: Rebecca Ivester

September 28 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.  | Room C

Unpacking Variation in Children’s Engagement Throughout the Preschool Day
Abt Co-Author: Kerry Hofer

September 28 | 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.  | Room G

A General Method for Adjusting Test Score Distributions to Account for Rescoring and Retesting
Abt Presenting Author: Sophie Litschwartz

September 29 | 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Room J

Challenges and Opportunities in Rigorous Research on Computing in STEM Disciplines
Abt Discussant: Beth Boulay