Daniel Katz Email & Phone Number

Petaluma, CA, US

Graduate Student working in educational measurement and assessment, education policy, and statistics.

Survey research, instrument validation

UCSB

Program Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics

- Tracked and analyzed California's high school graduation rates and other issues related to student high school student success. - Wrote 2-3 page statistical briefs on our findings - Created and updated Tableau visualizations

New York City

- Worked with student test data from the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT)- Wrote functions to automate data processing for the future- Ran various forms of Rasch models and latent regression Rasch models to assess test and item functioning using the TAM package in R as well as lme4 in R- General descriptive and inferential statistics.

Teaching assistant for the department's year-long introductory statistics series. Created assignments and lab handouts. Ran weekly hour long labs on statistical computing with SPSS and R.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Working in marketing strategy, basic data analytics, and content coordination and creation.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Santa Barbara, California Area

- lead writer/editor for the Social Issues database; writer/editor on American government and politics team- Book acquisitions (most recently, Teen Legal Rights http://www.amazon.com/Teen-Legal-Rights-David-Hudson/dp/1610696999)- Strategy work to help create an editorial calendar.- Research, develop, acquire, write, edit, proof, hyperlink new content for.

Santa Barbara, CA

- Coordinated with editors for industry specific (Media and Entertainment, AI, Video Games and DAM) journals to publish and distribute press releases and news.- SEO research. - Drafted Press Releases- Social Media management for Neology's clients.- Market research including examining editorial calendars for appropriate industry journals.- General Content.

Santa Barbara, California Area

- Drafted tech articles for submission to telecommunications specific journals, drafted press releases about new products and new personnel for Tempest. - Frequently conducted basic market research and compiled information to create a marketing campaign/plan.- Vendor Registration and Procurement (for receiving bids) and WBE registration

Santa Barbara, California Area

+I was responsible for running the 85 member UCSB Cycling team. Job duties included coordinating events, running meetings as well as coordinating and meeting with UCSB Department of Recreational Sports Officials as well as Club Sports officials. +Coordinated coaching, training and team rides. +Heavily involved in budgetary decisions and budget management.

Santa Barbara, CA

- Organized three team races each year.- Permitting with USA Cycling and the County of Santa Barbara.- Coordinating between USA Cycling, the County of Santa Barbara, CHP, County Fire and UCSB. - Organization of volunteers, race numbers, racer registration for the 550 participants, budgeting and closing of roads.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd (Education And Quantitative Methods)

Psychometrics, philosophies of language and science, statistics, and research methodology

Master'S Degree, Educational Assessment, Testing, And Measurement

Master's thesis provided validity evidence for a particular reading measure using Rasch/IRT analysis. The paper considered how to.

B.A., Political Science; History Minor

Activities and Societies: UCSB CyclingCollege of Letters and Sciences Honors Program Special research interest in applied statistics and.