Carnegie Mellon and Rand Traineeships

Training

• Projects
• Program
• SERG
• Speakers and Workshops

People

• Adam Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2015 
• Sarah Ryan, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014 
• Tracy Sweet, Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013 
• Jodi Casabianca, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2013 
• Julia Kaufman, Postdoctoral Fellow,
  2010-2012 
  
• Brian Junker, Director (CMU)
• John Pane, Co-Director (RAND)
• Management Commitee

cmart@stat.cmu.edu

CMART Speakers

 

As a part of the CMART training program, CMART invites experts in the field to Carnegie Mellon to give seminars and workshops on important topics in education research. Recent guests of the CMART seminar and workshop series include

• CMART Conversations. A two-day workshop, June 22-23, 2015, consisting of
• Research Colloquia from all five CMART and affiliated postdocs (Sales, Ryan, Sweet, Casabianca, & Kaufman).
• Structured discussion of opportunities and challenges in the CMART program, leading to recommendations and suggestions for successful future postdoctoral training programs.
• Ben Hansen, Associate Professor of Statistics and Reesearch Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
• Seminar, Propensity score calipers and the overlap condition, June 9, 2015.
  
• Ingram Olkin, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Education, Stanford University.
• Seminar, Sociometry, Networks and Meta-Analysis, May 18, 2015.
  
• Michael Hudgens, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Director of the Biostatistics Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research.
• Seminar, Causal Inference in the Presence of Interference, April 27, 2015.
  
• Kosuke Imai, Professor, Department of Politics, Committee for Statistical Studies & Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science, Princeton University.
• Seminar, Causal Interaction in High Dimension, March 2, 2015.
• Robert K. Ream, Associate Professor of Education, UC Riverside, and Associate Program Officer, Spencer Foundation.
• Workshop, Funding Your Research: An Information Session with the Spencer Foundation, May 9, 2014.
• Seminar, Household Wealth and Adolescents' Socioemotional Functioning in Schools, May 8, 2014.
  
• Guanglei Hong, Professor of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.
• Paper Workshop, Investigating Variation in Causal Mediation Mechanisms Across Experimental Sites, May 2, 2014.
• Seminar, How Interventions Work: New Weighting Methods for Causal Mediation Analysis, May 1, 2014.
• Alina A. von Davier, Director, Center for Advanced Psychometrics, Educational Testing Service,
  and
  Peter Halpin, Assistant Professor, Steinhardt School, New York University.
  • Seminar, Collaborative Problem Solving: Definition, Psychometric Models, and Assessment, Mar. 3, 2013.
• Alina A. von Davier, Director, Center for Advanced Psychometrics, Educational Testing Service.
  • Workshop, Equating Observed-Scores: The Percentile Rank, Gaussian Kernel, and IRT Observed-Score Equating Methods, Mar. 2, 2013.
• Sigal Alon, Department of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University and Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Seminar, Between Race and Class in Affirmative Action: Insights from a Comparative Study, Jan. 22, 2013.
• Klaas Sijtsma, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Professor of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
  • Seminar, Playing with Data Or How to Reduce Sloppy, Faulty and Fraudulent Data Analysis, Oct. 15, 2012.
• Henry Braun, Education and Public Policy, Boston College.
  • Two-day workshop on Value-Added Modeling, March 28-29, 2012
  • Seminar, Accountability in the Classroom: A Prescription with Side-Effects, March 28, 2012.
• Cynthia Coburn, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education.
  • Seminar, The Embeddedness of Teachers' Social Networks: Evidence from a Study of Mathematics Reform, presented February 23, 2012.