We regularly sponsor webinars and forums related to our focus area topics, project work, and solutions. Our experts also attend many industry events throughout the year. Explore the calendar to register for upcoming events, watch recordings of past events, or plan to connect with us at your favorite conferences.
Location: Online
Date: Nov 21, 2019 8:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Sign Up for a Free Webinar on Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten
Chronic absenteeism is particularly high in the early grades, compared with elementary and middle school. For a young child to succeed and develop a strong foundation for learning, he or she must attend school regularly.
Location: Online
Date: Nov 19, 2019 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Innovations in Medicare ACOs’ Approaches to Care Delivery Improvement
Hear from ACOs about their approaches to improving care delivery, and from CMS about new policy opportunities.
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Oct 01, 2019 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Data for Evidence-Based Policymaking
While many industries have increasingly turned to data science to make informed business decisions, social service organizations and government agencies have been slower to fully embrace the potential of current and emerging data science methods. The challenges are real.
Location: Washington, DC, and Online
Date: Jul 11, 2019 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Progress Together: Becoming Data Driven
Mathematica brought together leaders from a variety of sectors to discuss the challenges of becoming data driven and offer action-oriented, accessible advice on how organizations can take their first steps, or their next steps, to progress together.
Location: Washington, DC, and Online
Date: Jun 12, 2019 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Understanding the Power of Long-Term Impact Evaluations
International development programs are designed to make lasting and positive improvements in the health, education, and income of disadvantaged people around the world.
Location: Online
Date: May 16, 2019 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Webinar: Preparing Leaders to Make a Difference for Students and Schools
Recognizing that school leaders play a critical role in school performance, states and districts are rethinking how they prepare principals. But this retooling of preparation programs raises a number of important questions: What skills do new principals need? How can we identify aspiring principals with the potential to develop those competencies? And how can we use these insights to improve the training of leaders at all levels of the system, from teacher leaders to principal supervisors?
Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: May 16, 2019 4:00 -
May 19, 2019 4:00 a.m.
American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
Survey experts from Mathematica will attend the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Toronto, Canada to present findings on a range of survey and data collection topics.
Full agenda of sessions are available here.
Location: Online
Date: May 13, 2019 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
REL Webinar: Using Teacher Feedback in School Leader Evaluations
The goal of the webinar is to expand local and state leaders’ knowledge of teacher survey instruments to enhance the evaluation of school leaders.
Location: Online
Date: Apr 24, 2019 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Webinar: Strengthening Principal Preparation Through On-the-Job Training
A key challenge for policymakers is creating a pipeline of principals who are prepared to serve as instructional leaders. Districts often use the assistant principal position as a training ground for new principals. Yet little is known about how to design and implement on-the-job training opportunities that prepare assistant principals to serve as principals.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: Apr 14, 2019 4:00 -
Apr 18, 2019 4:00 a.m.
Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference
Several researchers from Mathematica’s international unit will present and chair sessions at the 63rd annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society. The sessions will highlight the insights that we are uncovering with our partners in the areas of literacy, life skills training, workforce development and education in accordance with this year’s theme, “Education for Sustainability.”
Featured speakers from Mathematica include:
Emilie Bagby, Senior Researcher
Amanda Beatty, Senior Researcher
Clemencia Cosentino, Senior Researcher
Swetha Sridharan, Researcher
Full agenda of sessions are available here.
Location: Online
Date: Apr 11, 2019 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth SSI Recipients: Early Findings from the PROMISE Evaluation
Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy hosted a webinar to discuss insights from the PROMISE evaluation.
In selected states, youth ages 14 to 16 who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and their families could take advantage of innovative services and improved service coordination through the Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) demonstration. Early findings on the implementation of PROMISE and its impacts on youth and families during the first 18 months after enrollment provide interesting insights for federal and state partners seeking to help youth with disabilities transition successfully to adulthood.
PROMISE is a cross-agency effort led by the U.S. Department of Education that includes the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor. Six PROMISE programs operating in 11 states implemented unique models that included agency-level partnerships, case management, benefits counseling, financial literacy training, career- and work-based learning experiences, and parent training and information. Learn more about the evaluation of PROMISE by visiting the project webpage.
Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy hosted a webinar on Thursday, April 11, 2019, from noon to 1:30 p.m., to discuss insights from the PROMISE evaluation. Topics included the following:
• The landscape of transition services for youth with disabilities and the challenges that youth and families face in accessing those services
• Different approaches used by the PROMISE programs to address service-system challenges and improve transition outcomes
• Findings from the 18-month PROMISE impact evaluation
• Perspectives on evaluation findings from the U.S. Department of Education and the Social Security Administration
Speakers will include the following:
• Gina Livermore, Mathematica (moderator)
• Todd Honeycutt, Mathematica
• Jackie Kauff, Mathematica
• Arif Mamun, Mathematica
• David Emenheiser, U.S. Department of Education (discussant)
• Joyanne Cobb, Social Security Administration (discussant)
Location: Baltimore, MD
Date: Mar 21, 2019 4:00 -
Mar 23, 2019 4:00 a.m.
Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
SRCD is…International, Interdisciplinary, and Relevant
Louisa Tarullo, Discussant: Kindergarten Transition and Context: Factors that Influence the Effects of Pre-k Programs
Lizabeth Malone, Panelist: National Studies of Child Development and Care Including Special Populations: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Diana McCallum, Presenter: Exploring My Prospects: Journeys Outside of Academia
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Mar 06, 2019 5:00 -
Mar 09, 2019 5:00 a.m.
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
"Tensions and Tradeoffs: Responding to Diverse Demands for Evidence"
The conference brought the tensions and tradeoffs among the questions practitioners and researchers study—and the decisions and constraints practitioners and researchers face—to the forefront of conversation.
Mathematica presenters included:
Elias Walsh and Jill Constantine: "Prioritization of Topic Areas and Interventions in Early Childhood to Grade 12 for the What Works Clearinghouse"
Jaime Thomas and others: "Preparing High-Need Children for Standards-Based Math Instruction in Elementary School Through a Two-Year Math Intervention: Evidence from a RCT at a State Level of Scale" (Abstract)
Duncan Chaplin, Dallas Dotter, Nick Ingwersen, and Arif Mamun: "Statistical Power in Studies That Use the Synthetic Control Method" (Abstract)
John Deke and Mariel Finucane: "Statistical Power Calculations for Evaluations That Will Interpret Impact Estimates Using the BASIE (BAyeSian Interpretation of Estimates) Framework" (Abstract)
Peter Schochet: "Analyzing Grouped Administrative Data for RCTs Using Design-Based Methods" (Abstract)
Alina Martinez and others: "Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Steps Toward College"
Steven Glazerman, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Alyson Burnett, and others: "Tradeoffs for Policymakers and Parents: How the Design of a School Shopping Website Can Affect School Choices" (Abstract)
Location: Various Locations
Date: Feb 21, 2019 5:00 - 5:00 a.m.
REL Mid-Atlantic Event: Using Teacher Feedback in Principal Evaluation
REL Mid-Atlantic conducted the second session of a two-part, in-person workshop to help district and school leaders better understand prospects for using teacher surveys in school leader evaluations.
Brian Gill and Brittney Gionfriddo, Mathematica
Location: Newark, DE
Date: Feb 07, 2019 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Delaware, like many states, wants to refine its quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early childhood care and education (ECE) settings (known as Delaware Stars for Early Success, or Delaware Stars) to ensure consistency in quality within each level, distinguish quality between levels, and ensure the validity of the ratings (specifically, that programs that earn higher ratings lead to better outcomes for children). The goal of this workshop is to support a redesign effort through review of research, facilitated discussion, and lessons from other states.
Speakers:
Gretchen Kirby, Mathematica
Kimberly Boller, Mathematica
Becky Mercatoris, Bureau Director, Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning
Anna Carter, Director, Division of Child Development and Early Education, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Location: Online
Date: Jan 31, 2019 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
This webinar presented considerations for analyzing administrative data to understand and monitor the provision of pre-employment transition services. Staff from vocational rehabilitation agencies can use their administrative data (such as the RSA-911 Case Service Report) to generate snapshots of service provision. Having information on the types of pre-employment transition services delivered, the characteristics of youth receiving them, and geographic and other differences in their delivery can help staff set goals and monitor services.The webinar included a demonstration analyzing pre-employment transition services contained in the RSA-911 Case Service Report using Microsoft Excel. This webinar, which was held on January 31, from 1-2:00 p.m. EST (12-1:00 p.m. CST), offered 1 CRC credit.
Presenters included: Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak
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