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Daniel F. McCaffrey

Pittsburgh Office

Senior Statistician

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Ph.D. in statistics, North Carolina State University; B.A. in mathematics and economics, Mount Saint Mary's College

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Research Focus

Accountability and assessment; Drug policy; Substance use and adolescent substance abuse treatment; Value-added modeling

RAND Research Areas

Child Policy; Education; Health and Health Care

Recent Projects

Causal effects of value-added assessment: studying the effects of value-added assessments on educator practice and student outcomes using data from the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System
Improved value-added estimation: developing statistical methods for estimating teacher effects using longitudinal student achievement data

Selected Publications

Daniel F. McCaffrey et al., Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability, RAND Corporation, 2006

D. F. McCaffrey and R. M. Bell, "Improved Hypothesis Testing for Coefficients in Generalized Estimating Equations with Small Samples of Clusters", Statistics in Medicine, 25(23), 2006

John F. Pane et al., Student Displacement in Louisiana After the Hurricanes of 2005: Experiences of Public Schools and Their Students, RAND Corporation, 2006

D. F. McCaffrey et al., "Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 29(1), 2004

D. F. McCaffrey et al., "Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies", Psychological Methods, 9(4), 2004

Related RAND Resources

Research Focus

Accountability and assessment, drug policy, substance use and adolescent substance abuse treatment, value-added modeling

Recent Projects

Causal effects of value-added assessment: studying the effects of value-added assessments on educator practice and student outcomes using data from the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System
Improved value-added estimation: developing statistical methods for estimating teacher effects using longitudinal student achievement data

Selected Publications

Student Displacement in Louisiana After the Hurricanes of 2005: Experiences of Public Schools and Their Students, John F. Pane et al., RAND Corporation, 2006

"Improved Hypothesis Testing for Coefficients in Generalized Estimating Equations with Small Samples of Clusters," D. F. McCaffrey and R. M. Bell, Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 23, Dec 2006

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

"Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies," D. F. McCaffrey et al., Psychological Methods, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2004

Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability, Daniel F. McCaffrey et al., RAND Corporation, 2003