RAND Expert Biography
Daniel F. McCaffrey
Senior Statistician; PNC Chair in Policy Analysis
Expertise
Accountability and assessment, drug policy, substance use and adolescent substance abuse treatment, value-added modeling
Recent Work
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
Education
Ph.D. in statistics, North Carolina State University; B.A. in mathematics and economics, Mount Saint Mary's College
Publications of Interest
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
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
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