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J. R. Lockwood

Pittsburgh Office

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Ph.D. in statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in statistics, Duke University; B.A. in environmental science and policy, Duke University

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Research Focus

K-12 education; longitudinal modeling approaches for teacher and school accountability; education research; relationships between teaching practices and student achievement; value-added modeling; hierarchical modeling; Bayesian methods

RAND Research Areas

Education; Health and Health Care

Recent Projects

Enhanced Value-added Models for Estimating Teacher Effects
Evaluating the Practice and Potential of Value-Added Modeling of Educational Achievement
National Center for Performance Incentives
Mosaic II: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effects of Systemic Reforms on Student Achievement
Edison Schools Evaluation

Selected Publications

Lockwood JR, McCaffrey DF, Mariano LT and Setodji C., "Bayesian Methods for Scalable Multivariate Value-Added Assessment", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 32(2) 125-150, 2007

Lockwood JR and McCaffrey DF, "Controlling for Individual Heterogenity in Longitudinal Models, with Applications to Student Achievement", Electronic Journal of Statistics, 1 223-252, 2007

Lockwood JR, McCaffrey DF, Hamilton LS, Stecher BM, Le V and Martinez F., "The Sensitivity of Value-Added Teacher Effect Estimates to Different Mathematics Achievement Measures", Journal of Educational Measurement, 44(1) 47-67, 2007

Lockwood JR and Schervish MJ, "MCMC Strategies for Computing Bayesian Predictive Densities for Censored Multivariate Data", ournal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14(2) 395-414, 2005

Lockwood J.R., Schervish M.J., and Gurian P.L., Small M.J., "Analysis of contaminant co-occurrence in community water systems", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99(465) 26-45, 2004

Daniel F. McCaffrey et al., Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability, RAND Corporation, 2004

McCaffrey D., Lockwood J.R., Koretz D., Louis T., and Hamilton L., "Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 29(1) 67-101, 2004

Lockwood J.R., Doran H., and McCaffrey D., "Using R for Estimating Longitudinal Student Achievement Models", The R Newsletter, 3(3) 17-23, 2003

Related RAND Resources

Research Focus

K-12 education, longitudinal modeling approaches for teacher and school accountability, education research, relationships between teaching practices and student achievement

Recent Projects

Enhanced value-added models for estimating teacher effects
Edison Schools evaluation
Mosaic II: a longitudinal investigation of the effects of systemic reforms on student achievement

Selected Publications

"The Sensitivity of Value-Added Teacher Effect Estimates to Different Mathematics Achievement Measures," J. R. Lockwood et al., Journal of Educational Measurement, forthcoming

"Bayesian Methods for Scalable Multivariate Value-Added Assessment," J. R. Lockwood et al., Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, forthcoming

Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability, Daniel F. McCaffrey et al., RAND Corporation, 2004

"Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects," Daniel F. McCaffrey et al., Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2004

"Using R for Estimating Longitudinal Student Achievement Models," J. R. Lockwood et al., The R Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2003