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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 209-214
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His research topics in health care policy focus on measurement of the quality of care provided by health plans through consumer assessments and clinical and administrative data. Currently, his major projects include survey implementation for the Medicare system, methodol ogy for surveys in psychiatric epidemiology, and studies on determinants of quality of care for cancer.
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His areas of quantitative interest include modeling of individual growth, multilevel and mixture modeling, structural equation modeling, item response theory, and exploratory data analysis. His current research includes work supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, the Texas Education Agency, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
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At WESTAT, his work has involved the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, and other sur vey design and technical assistance projects. His work covers many aspects of survey implementation, including survey design, sampling frame creation, sample selection, data collection methods, missing data mitigation, weighting procedures, estimation techniques, variance estimation, methodological investigations, and experimental designs.
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She also provides professional assistance to districts in serving the needs of limited English proficient and immigrant students and their families and provides statewide assistance to ESOL teachers, mainstream teachers of ESOL students, and admin istrators in the development and implementation of services for English language learners. She serves on the Hispanic Advisory Board for the South Carolina Commission on Minority Affairs and is a member of Clemson University's Hispanic Task Force.
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The portfolio of work carried out by the center includes policy research in areas such as the assessment of English language learners, providing technical assistance in education reform to state departments of education, districts, and schools and conducting program evaluations for school districts. She has published extensively on the issue of assessing English language learners and led a project that generated tools for policy makers, educators, and community members to help English learners reach high academic standards.
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