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Fall 2024

Drs. Scott and Hill awarded IES grant

PRIISM co-directors Drs. Scott and Hill along with visiting assistant professor Perrett were awarded a $900,000 grant by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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Causal Language and Statistics Instruction

PRIISM co-director Dr. Hill and core PRIISM faculty Perrett and Dr. Bergner published a paper with colleagues in the Statistics Education Research Journal that uses a randomized experiment to explore how students interpret language used to describe research findings.

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Queer Data Lab

The NYU Queering and Elevating Empirical Research (QUEER) data lab aims to improve data collection and statistical analysis as it pertains to improving the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Spring 2024

Menu Labeling and Calories Purchased in Restaurants

Drs. Mijanovich, Weitzman and colleagues investigate whether providing nutrition information on menus is associated with calories purchased in an US fast food restaurant chain.

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Tara McAllister Awarded $3 Million Grant

Dr. McAllister was awarded a $3 million grant to continue research to evaluate the effectiveness of in-person versus telepractice delivery of biofeedback intervention for speech sound disorder.

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Online versus lab measures of speech perception

Drs. McAllister, Hill and colleagues show that valid measures of speech perception can be obtained both online and in person.

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Student Self-Reports on Social-Emotional Surveys

Dr. Kanopka and colleagues show that changes in self-reported social-emotional measures predict changes in both achievement and attendance.

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Academic Effects of Moving to Middle School

Kaitlyn O’Hagan, PRIISM researcher alum, and mentor Dr. Stiefel explore how the move to middle school differentially affects students with disabilities.

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Fall 2023

Ethics and Predictive Data Science

Dr. Washington traveled to Australia to talk about her forthcoming book on predictive data science with other scholars and to meet with high level government officials to ensure legislative transparency is at the forefront of laws on technology.

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Pretrial Release Judgements and Measuring Fairness

Dr. Shroff helps clarify understanding of pretrial release judgements and best practices regarding measuring fairness.

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Artificial Intelligence and Speech Sound Disorders

Dr. McAllister and team improve understanding of how to help people with speech sound disorders.

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Pandemic Impacts on Health and Equity

Dr. Scott highlights the impact of pandemics on health and equity.

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The Power of Cultural Spaces to Make Positive Social Change in Conflict-Affected Contexts

Dr. King highlights the impact of cultural spaces in conflict-affected contexts.

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Education and Hope in Nairobi and Karachi

Drs. King and Burde highlight the conflicting role of education in a recent article published in Comparative Education Review.

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The Latest from the Journal on Education in Emergencies

Dr. Burde and her team focus on the impact of this pandemic and previous ones in the Journal on Education in Emergencies in a venue that provides space for academics in conflict-affected contexts in under-represented spaces.

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The Impact of the Urban Advantage Program in NYC

Dr. Weinstein and colleagues explore the impact of the Urban Advantage program on students and teachers in NYC.

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Teachers’ Race and Gender Biases in the Classroom

Dr. Cimpian helps us understand the relationship between teachers’ race and gender bias.

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Mischievous Responders: New Findings!

Do survey respondents always report in good faith? Dr. Cimpian investigates!

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Newly Published Stata and R textbooks

Drs. Harel and Weinberg announce new editions of Stata and R textbooks.

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Fall 2022

Microsoft Funds Data Justice and Racial Equity Postdocs

Dr. Anne Washingson received a $375,000 gift from the Microsoft Corporation to fund two postdoctoral fellowships.

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Efficacy of Treatment for Childhood Speech Sound Disorder

Dr. McAllister and Dr. Scott use machine learning to identify the impact of treatments on speech development trajectories.

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The SuperDataScience Podcast with Dr. Jennifer Hill

Dr. Hill is interviewed on The SuperDataScience Podcast and discusses the challenges in answering causal questions and the role of machine learning and design.

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Jamaican Creole, an Underrepresented Language Context

Dr. McAllister published a paper alongside CSD alum Annika Canta highlighting an underrepresented language context, Jamaican Creole.

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Strategies for Getting More Honest Survey Responses

Drs. Burde, King, Harel, and Hill, and A3SR alum Seaman have published an article discussing how to elicit honest answers to sensitive questions.

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Equity in Transportation Finance and Bus Provision

Dr. Meryle Weinstein and colleagues published a paper that examined equity in transportation finance and bus provision in the United States.

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Dr. Harel Collaborates with McGill University

Dr. Harel is a co-investigator in a new study that will evaluate how data collection methods may influence sensitive mental health assessments.

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Dr. Ravi Shroff Wins Outstanding Paper Award

Dr. Shroff wins the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) conference for work on causality and fairness.

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Swallowing-related fatigue among older adults

Dr. Harel is co-author on a paper with Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD) colleagues.

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Spring 2022

Government Use of Tech

Dr. Anne Washington participates in a Data & Society’s “What is Public Interest” event.

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Drs. King and Samii receive Best Book Award!

Diversity, Violence & Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace, Drs. Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii's book, wins Best Book Award.

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Sugary Beverage Taxes

Drs. Beth Weitzman and Todor Mijanovich are part of a new team of investigators studying the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on changes in prices paid and calories consumed in fast food restaurants.

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Causal Frameworks and Discrimination Studies

Drs. Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Hill and colleagues recently coauthored a paper on the causal effects of race or gender on outcomes in discrimination studies.

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COVID-19 Vaccinations and School/Community Resources

Dr. Meryle Weinstein is a co-investigator on a new NIH funded project that examines how COVID has affected children’s health and education in NYC.

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Shortening Patient Health Questionnaires

Dr. Daphna Harel and colleauges conducted the first study to externally validate the results of shortening a patient reported outcome measure through optimal test assembly.

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Speech-Language Treatment Using Mobile App for Biofeedback

Dr. Tara McAllister and the BITS Lab team recently published an article that furthers the evidence-based research for mobile app-based treatments used by speech-language pathologists.

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Fall 2021

Child Speech Therapy

Dr. Tara McAllister provides updates on her research on technology-enhanced speech treatments to support children with speech sound disorders.

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Homelessness Risk Screening Tool for Emergency Department Patients

Dr. Tod Mijanovich and colleagues recently developed an interview tool for screening emergency department patients for risk of future homelessness.

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The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology

Dr. Anne Washington recently published an article on data privacy and was quoted in an MIT Technology Review article.

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Using Technology to Help Doctors & Infant Healthcare Providers

Dr. Jennifer Hill's research shows how extending Item Response Theory models can help us understand how doctors learn from their mistakes and that in-hospital infant formula supplementation impacts later breastfeeding success.

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The Use of Criminal Risk Assessments in the Justice System

Dr. Ravi Shroff recently co-authored a chapter that critically examines the use of statistical algorithms that help predict if people will be repeat offenders.

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Summer 2021

Systemic Discrimination in Policing

Dr. Ravi Shroff has a forthcoming chapter in the upcoming 5th edition of Social Stratification.

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Learners' Resilience in Tests and Collaborative Filtering

Dr. Yoav Bergner recently published an article on the interaction between resilience and ability in assessments. Be on the lookout for a forthcoming article in Psychometrika.

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Journal on Education in Emergencies: Special issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies

Read the special issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies led by editor-in-chief and PRIISM associate faculty, Dr. Dana Burde and senior managing editor, Dr. Heddy Lahmann.

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Spring 2021

Young Kenyans' views on politics, the state & the future

Read Drs. Elisabeth King, Dana Burde, Daphna Harel, and Jennifer Hill's latest article.

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Connecting with poet Amanda Gorman: Dr. McAllister on difficulties with the 'r' sound

Dr. Tara McAllister's research covers a topic near Amanda Gorman's heart.

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Diet Inequalities in NYC

Read Dr. Carolyn Dimitri's recently published paper on NYC's Healthy Savings Program.

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Improving academic outcomes for students with disabilities

Read Dr. Leanna Steifel's recently published article.

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Shortening the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale

Read Dr. Daphna Harel's recently published article on a novel methodology.

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Fall 2020 - Part 2

Test-Taking for Gifted and Talented Kindergarten

Drs. Sharon Weinberg and Ying Lu published an article that demonstrates the importance of addressing diversity in Gifted & Talented programs.

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The Judicial System and Policing

Dr. Ravi Shroff has co-authored two papers on the judicial system and policing.

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Statistics Using R: An Integrated Approach

Drs. Sharon Weinberg and Daphna Harel published a textbook, Statistics Using R: An Integrated Approach.

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Mischievous Responders

Read Dr. Joe Cimpian's three papers on "mischievous responders."

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What Nairobi Youth Think about Politics, the State & the Future

Read Drs. Elisabeth King, Daphna Harel, Dana Burde, and Jennifer Hill, and Simon Grinsted's newly published paper.

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Regression and Other Stories (Analytical Methods for Social Research)

Dr. Jennifer Hill, along with co-authors Drs. Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari, published a textbook from Cambridge University Press.

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Fall 2020 - Part 1

Statistics Using Stata: An Integrative Approach

Dr. Sharon Weinberg’s second edition textbook.

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Diversity, Violence, and Recognition

Drs. Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii co-authored a book, Diversity, Violence, and Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace from Oxford University Press.

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Speech Therapy and Biofeedback

Dr. Tara McAllister provides an update on her various projects.

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A Bayesian approach to the Judicial System

Dr. Ravi Shroff has co-authored a paper on the judicial system.

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Healthcare Management Programs

Dr. Tod Mijanovich's work on healthcare management programs.

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Gender Equality, and Teacher Bias and Perceptions

Dr. Joe Cimpian was busy in 2020 with three sole- and co-authored papers.

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