Megan Zander-Cotugno

Senior Survey Coordinator
Santa Monica Office

Education

M.A. in policy analysis, Stanford University; B.S. in psychology, University of Illinois

Overview

Biography

Megan Zander-Cotugno is a senior survey coordinator with many years of project management experience for large national security, health and education research studies. Zander-Cotugno possesses skills to lead proposal writing, budgeting, instrument design, recruitment and supervision of data collectors, overall progress of project implementation, data delivery, and methodology report. She works regularly with multiple modes of data collection including telephone surveys, fieldwork, cognitive interviewing, mail surveys, web surveys and mixed-mode studies.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Improving Army Strategic Communications
  • Brief Voluntary Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Program for Middle School Youth
  • Recruiting Older Youths
  • 2005 National Computer Security Survey
  • 2006 Survey of Military Retirees

Selected Publications

Rayburn, N.R., Jaycox, L.H., McCaffrey, D.F., Ulloa, E.C., Zander-Cotugno, M., Marshall, G.N., & Shelley, G.A., "Reactions to dating violence among Latino teenagers: An experiment utilizing the Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations paradigm," Journal of Adolescence, 30:893-915, 2007

Laughlin, P.R., Zander, M.L., Knievel, E.M., & Tan, T.K., "Groups perform better than the best individuals on letters-to-numbers problems: Informative equations and effective strategies," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(4):684-694, 2003

Honors & Awards

  • Impact Award, RAND Corporation
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of Illinois
  • Bronze Tablet, University of Illinois