Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2024 Summer Institute

From [the workshop webpage](https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/events/workshops-training/improving-evaluations-2024.html): This five day summer institute introduced early-to-mid career STEM education resarchers to contemporary evaluation methods for small-efficacy studies. This included

• An introduction to causal inference methods, confounding, and validity concerns in research
• Methods for matching to control for selection bias
• Pretest, posttest and difference-in-difference designs
• Small field experiments and pilot study designs

My role included facilitating a small group of 6 workshop participants as they critiqued and improved a previously published small-efficacy study.