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Quantitative Formulas

Here are some cool formulas. What do they do?

Keith Widaman featured in AQM's 2nd Series Colloquium May 7, 2009

UC Davis Professor, Keith Widaman, visits us at the Graduate School of Education, at UCLA, on Thursday, May 7th. He will discuss his and co-authors research on:

Investigating Factorial Invariance of Latent Variables Across Populations When
Manifest Variables Are Missing Completely.

We are very excited that Prof Widaman will lead our 2nd Series Colloquium here at UCLA on May 7th. Our First Series Colloquium featured UC Merced Professor, Will Shadish, on February 12th. You can view that presentation here.

Stay tuned either in this blog or at AQM's website for further updates!

Professor Li Cai news

Professor Li Cai led the discussion last Friday in the Research Apprenticeship Course (RAC) about IRT-based methods for quantifying reliability and measurement error from a book chapter in Computerized Adaptive Testing, A Primer, 2nd edition. You can view the paper from our AQM website.

The RAC is a great way to experience the high level of research quantitative analysis that faculty and fellows discuss in a supportive classroom setting that fosters learning.

Just recently Cai received the AERA Division D award for Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation & Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education. You can read about it from the March 10, 2009 issue of UCLA Today. AERA has not updated their website yet but once they do, a link will be added.

Congratulations to Professor Cai!

Spring Quarter 2009

To recap our Winter Quarter here, we had our official Opening Reception of the AQM Program on December 8th, the start of our First Colloquium Series on February 12th, the SREE Conference on March 1st, AQM Open House on March 6 and lastly, a solid month or two of meeting and greeting new PhD Candidates. It's been busy here! And this quarter promises more!

We have started Spring quarter 2009 with a continuation of our famous RAC 288/25 course and are looking foward to our second colloquium presentation on May 7th, when UC Davis professor, Keith Widaman, visits. Plus, we have three conferences for our Psychology and Education students!

The AERA meeting in San Diego kicks off on April 13, the WPA convention in Portland, Oregon and the Big One: the IES 4th Annual Research Conference in Virgina on June 7th. Our Phd Fellows are an ambitious bunch! See http://aqm.gseis.ucla.edu/newsandevents.html for more information.

Here's a fun joke

A consulting statistician and his client sat down together for the first time.

Client: "I desparately need your help interpreting the significant three-way interaction in this factorial ANOVA. What are your fees?"

Statistician: "One hundred dollars for three questions."

Client: "Isn't that a little steep?"

Statistician: "Not really! Now what is your third question?"

Thanks to Gary Ramseyer for some ANOVA humor

Will Shadish at the Grad School of Education

UC Merced professor, Will Shadish, visited the AQM program on Friday, 2/12/09. He was our First Colloquium Speaker and his visit was highly anticipated!

Will spent the day meeting and speaking with faculty and fellows and was gracious with his time and expertise. The Fellows spent an hour with Will at our informal "Organic To Go brown bag session" in room 1048 in Moore Hall. We had some delicous organic sandwiches, apple chips, sodas and snacks. Later, they participated in his colloquium from 3:30-5:00pm in the Reading Room on the third floor. We had standing room only with over 55 guests. Next month, we will post his PowerPoint and audio file so you can see how his topic:

When Can Nonrandomized Experiments Approximate the Answers from Randomized Experiments?

This is the essence of all university life: meeting and discussing research with top notch experts in the field.

Will Shadish's presentation was best explained to me by AQM Fellow, Mark Hansen. I hope Mark or another AQM fellow has some time to summarize Prof Shadish's research topic that day.

This week we have a visiting PhD Candidate on Wednesday from Concord, California. He will meet and greet our faculty and fellows to get an idea if the AQM program is a great match for him and us.

Here is the link to the PowerPoint from February 12, 2009. It's best to download it for optimal quality. http://aqm.gseis.ucla.edu/newsandevents.html

Jordan Rickles Jan 9, 2009 Rac Ed288 Sec 25

Jordan Rickles Jan 9, 2009 Rac Ed288 Sec 25

Jordan Rickles Jan 9, 2009 Rac Ed288 Sec 25

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