Large inter-state collaborative

• Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
• Lots of data and data sharing agreements
  • State testing data for every student in each state, Grades 3-8, in Reading and Math (some science)
  • Number of years varies by state, but generally there's about a decade
• Focus on growth-modeling, accountability policies, and between-school

Challenges with NCAASE

Computational perspective was generally not present

• Flat file structures
• GLM framework
• Secure data - not easily shareable/releasable
• Lots of good work (~25 publications), but plenty of areas for improvement

Work stemming from NCAASE

"Epidemiological" work in education

• Large-scale data sources incorporated with educational outcomes
• Predict "disease" (e.g., achievement gaps)
• Include different modeling strategies (e.g., machine learning)
• Ideally, data are publicly available/shareable
  • Increase transparency/reproducibility

In closing

The COE more broadly

• Many faculty represented in the Prevention Science Institute
  • See active projects here
    • Adoption studies
    • Drug abuse prevention
    • Parent-training studies
• fMRI work
  • Reading comprehension
  • Mathematics problem soloving
• Lots of work on Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities