Category Archives: Praxes

What factors influence a school district’s ability to improve student achievement? With that as my guiding research question, I decided to explore whether demographic and financial variables represent latent factors. If not, then each may influence achievement individually. Using school … Continue reading →

Is student proficiency in a school district related to proficiency levels in neighboring districts? I’m continuing my foray into spatial methods by analyzing spatial dependency among standardized test scores at the school district level in Minnesota. If the influence of … Continue reading →

Check out the first deleted scene from The Simpsons Movie. It’s really funny and deftly portrays what it can be like to conduct applied research in the policy arena. The head of the EPA fails to persuade President Schwarzenegger to … Continue reading →

I recently attended one of the Workshops on Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education. The workshop was led by two of my heroes, Thomas Cook and William Shadish. It was an honor to be selected for the workshop and to … Continue reading →

At Wilder Research, we promote evidence-based practices that support the foundation’s mission: To promote the social welfare of persons resident or located in the greater Saint Paul metropolitan area by all appropriate means… without regard to, or discrimination on account … Continue reading →