RAND Expert Biography
J. R. Lockwood
Statistician
Office
Pittsburgh
Expertise
K-12 education, longitudinal modeling approaches for teacher and school accountability, education research, relationships between teaching practices and student achievement
Recent Work
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
Education
Ph.D. in statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in statistics and B.A. in environmental science and policy, Duke University
Publications of Interest
"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
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
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