Below is a list of major research projects that I have worked on during my time as a research assistant for the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center (EPARC). Information about these and other research projects I have worked on is available on my website at https://sites.google.com/view/yang-anCALDER Multi-state Academic Mobility Project (June 2019 to Present)• Used Missouri student-level data on recent cohorts of third grade students and tracked students forward through K-12 education.• Examined the relationships between students’ percentile rankings based on exam scores in third grade and their percentile rankings based on longer-term outcomes.• Constructed district-level value-added measures compared to district-level academic mobility metrics.Using Free Meal and Direct Certification Data to Proxy for Student Disadvantage in the Era of the Community Eligibility Provision (November 2018 to Present)• Built a six-year data panel of student characteristics and achievement merged with the direct certification data and student attendance records. • Evaluated how the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) affected the ability of free meal data to predict student attendance and achievement by pseudo-coding actual CEP schools as CEP adopters before the policy.2018 Missouri Growth Model (August 2018 to October 2018)• Employed state assessment data to retrieve and combine each student’s exam scores in 2017 and 2018, predicted the score in 2018 based on the score in 2017 and characteristics of the school and district, and obtained residuals from the prediction.• Applied the residuals to generate value-added measures for schools and districts.• Compiled the results necessary for reporting.