In keeping with this year’s theme “Research into Practice” SREE sought presentations that address how to bridge the research-to-practice divide and that offer empirical tests of efforts that are necessary to translate evidence about “what works” into practice.

Abt Associates staff members participated in this third annual Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Conference.

For more information visit the conference website.

Thursday, March 4

Literacy: Organization, Management and Measurement of Classrooms for Effective Reading Instruction
Chair: Beth Gamse, Abt Associates

Research Methodology: Examining State Assessments
Chair: Jane Hannaway, The Urban Institute
Using State Or Study-Administered Achievement Tests in Impact Evaluations
Rob Olsen, Abt Associates
Fatih Unlu, Abt Associates
Andrew Jaciw, Empirical Education

Reform Initiatives: Effectiveness of Secondary and Post-Secondary Interventions
Chair: Donnell Butler, Educational Testing Service
Early Findings from the Implementation and Impact Study of Early College High School
Larry Bernstein, RTI
Ryoko Yamaguchi, Abt Associates
Fatih Unlu, Abt Associates
Julie Edmunds, SERVE
Elizabeth Glennie, RTI
John Willse, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Nina Arshavsky, SERVE

Friday, March 5

Research Methodology: Technical Issues in Research Methods
Chair: Russell Cole, Mathematica Policy Research
Estimating Impacts on Program-Related Subgroups Using Propensity Score Matching: Evidence from the Early College High School Study
Fatih Unlu, Abt Associates
Ryoko Yamaguchi, Abt Associates
Larry Bernstein, RTI
Julie Edmunds, SERVE