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).
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.
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.
Dr. Marc Scott and PRIISM Affiliate Augustin de Coulon investigate the diffusion of COVID-19 across neighborhoods in two major cities, London and New York.
Drs. Mijanovich, Weitzman and colleagues investigate whether providing nutrition information on menus is associated with calories purchased in an US fast food restaurant chain.
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.
Kaitlyn O’Hagan, PRIISM researcher alum, and mentor Dr. Stiefel explore how the move to middle school differentially affects students with disabilities.
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.
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.
Dr. Hill is interviewed on The SuperDataScience Podcast and discusses the challenges in answering causal questions and the role of machine learning and design.
Dr. Shroff wins the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) conference for work on causality and fairness.
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.
Drs. Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Hill and colleagues recently coauthored a paper on the causal effects of race or gender on outcomes in discrimination studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drs. Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii co-authored a book, Diversity, Violence, and Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace from Oxford University Press.
