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Elizabeth Sanders Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology 312G Miller Hall lizz@u.washington.edu

Education Publications Courses

My teaching and research interests are focused on appropriate use of statistical methods in educational research, with greatest emphasis on research using experimental design.

Both my teaching and research are greatly informed by questions that arise from collaborations with other researchers. I have partnered with multidisciplinary research teams across a host of study designs and an array of content areas. Study designs have ranged from small correlational studies using surveys as outcomes to full-scale curriculum efficacy trials across large numbers of schools. Project content areas have included literacy acquisition and interventions (L1 and L2 learners, and children with cognitive disabilities); school and classroom behavior interventions; cognition and social outcomes for children with disabilities; and connections between teacher knowledge/beliefs and their students’ outcomes (e.g., elementary literacy curricula, high school science and math curricula, and engineering education). The fruits of many of these collaborations are documented in my publications list.

My own research investigates how statistical tests perform across large numbers of samples generated from specific conditions. For example, how will the test of the linear growth component in a repeated measures analysis of variance perform if individuals are not all measured at the same time (a situation that is common in research where children are tested individually)? Or, as another example, how will the test of the treatment effect in a multilevel model perform if half your sample is in a small-group treatment and the other half is in individual treatment (a situation common to intervention research)? These types of investigations involve conducting Monte Carlo simulation studies by programming sample generation and analysis procedures from software such as SAS, R, Mplus, or Fortran.

Education

Ph.D., Measurement & Statistics in Educational Psychology, University of Washington, 2011

M.Ed., Measurement & Statistics in Educational Psychology, University of Washington, 2004

B.S., Psychology (focus on cognition and memory, with minor in Anthropology), University of Washington, 1999.

Publications

My publications can be found here.

Courses

I have taught courses in basic educational statistics, survey research methods, educational research methods, and advanced correlational techniques, and from time to time, will offer seminars on specialized topics. Below are links to recent course syllabi (in pdf format).

Basic Statistics (3 cr): Fall 2010 Edpsy 490 Syllabus
Survey Research (3 cr): Winter 2011 Edpsy 588 Syllabus
Educational Research (3 cr): Spring 2011 Edpsy 591 Syllabus
Advanced Correlation (5 cr): Spring 2011 Edpsy 594 Syllabus