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Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Data cleaning and analyses, presentation preparation and result write ups for various research projects. Projects included:1. A cluster randomized pilot study of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Trauma in Schools (CBITs) aimed at reducing the likelihood of repeat incarceration through healthy coping mechanisms with incarcerated youth (funded by Washington State). Duties included providing data management and analysis using multilevel modeling of youth within incarcerated housing units to identify the effects of introducing new curriculum to incarcerated youth to generate awareness and providing positive coping mechanisms when involved in racial prejudice and other negative scenarios.2. An IES-Funded Goal 1 project exploring the development of a critical meta-linguistic awareness (CMA) teacher assessment. Duties include data management, cleaning and analyses using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modeling. 3. Equity Elementary Ambitious Science Teaching (E2AST) project to better understand teacher equity through social networks. Responsibilities included data cleaning, social network analysis and generating necessary sociograms associated with the network.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Provide research and data analytics aimed at evaluating and improving mentorship for ELL certified teachers in middle and high school math and science. Duties included attending meetings to consult on project implementation, survey design, data gathering, management, data cleaning and organization, analyses, and writing report results and recommendations for presentations and publications. Analyses include multilevel or structural equation modeling to identify strategies for improving support for and providing necessary tools for ELL math and science teachers to increase enrollment, sustain ELL students in math and science courses, and gather information about ELL teachers and their support networks help develop an ELL teacher and mentor summer institute at Evergreen State College.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead or facilitate improvement in course efficacy by providing communication and visual supports to professors and students, facilitate student intellectual breakthroughs in understanding and applying course topics for introduction through advanced statistics courses (EDPSY 490, EDPSY 593, EDPSY 594, EDPSY 575, EDPSY 576), and provide solutions to software difficulties (R, HLM, SPSS).

Seattle, Washington, United States

A statewide, longitudinal research studying program evaluation on how to improve math and science teacher collaboration networks across Washington K-12 schools by applying Ambitious Science Practices in classrooms through teacher professional development interventions. Duties include data management, cleaning, and analysis using STATA and R. Statistical methods included social network analysis, descriptive statistics, and graph and charts representations to identify focal network teachers. Social network analysis was also used to address questions about of why teachers utilize the network what for, how frequently to successfully offer strategies supporting effective usage, continued growth, and network sustainability beyond the 5-year study. Other duties include contributing to reports, papers, and presentations, particularly to State funders, by authoring reports and write-ups of findings and discussions with necessary data visualizations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

A project was using social network analysis and subsequent pertinent data visualizations for program evaluation by identifying how teacher professional development influences math and science teacher collaboration and mentorship networking. Another goal was to understand how the overall teacher network is utilized, sustained, and expanded across 4 years. Duties included data management, cleaning, and analyzing. Analyzing methods included social network analyses with R, and descriptive statistics in STATA and R. Tables and charts were generated in KliqueFinder, NetDraw and R, and created results for publications, reports, and presentations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Assist UW students/faculty with statistical software, including STATA, SPSS, and R. Taught “Introduction to R through RStudio,” covering the basic organization of R and RStudio twice in 2017, “Introduction to SPSS” twice in 2017.

Seattle, Washington, United States

For this mixed-methods study, the purpose was to analyze how individuals effectively learn by understanding how the brain works. Duties included transcribing and organizing data from a predetermined code book using Dedoose for qualitative analysis and analyze and report descriptive statistics from the study sample.

Seattle, Washington, United States

An ITES investigated new teacher mobility in Virginia and BTCI evaluating teacher mobility in Washington and North Carolina to nationally representative, highly secure and confidential data. Data was analyzed using STATA conducting basic regression analyses, assisted in creating an annotated bibliography, and assisted in other writing and website tasks.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsibilities included utilizing and updating the qualitative codebook to code responses of high school student interviews and participate in weekly meeting consultations to resolve coding dilemmas.

Seattle, Washington, United States

With permission from the PI and receipt of IRB, analyzed the efficacy of the project’s highly sensitive and secure data from a political science and mixed methods perspective. Utilized results for M.A. thesis from this NIH-funded 10-year longitudinal study investigating the effects of poverty on youth in Mobile, AL. The major focus of the project was exploring the potential of homelessness as a critical antecedent the cycle of poverty.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Measurement And Statistics

Quantitative Methods, Statistics Measurement Analysis And Research Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication, General And Political Science