The Statistics, Measurement, And Research design Techniques in Educational Research (SMARTER) consulting office provides support for College of Education faculty plus graduate students’ research design plus quantitative analysis needs. We can help by discussing any aspect of a quantitative study, from the specific, such as choosing a statistical tipe to address a research question, interpreting the results of an analysis, conducting a power analysis, or suggesting or critiquing a research design, to the general, such as assisting with formulation of research questions plus statistical hypotheses or serving as a sounding board for research ideas.

Basic Statistics Series on Canvas
This dasar stats course delivered via Canvas has four modules that should be taken in the following order:

Foundational concepts of statistics, including sampling distributions plus p-values,
Mean differences, including t-tests plus confidence intervals,
Correlation plus regression, including multiple regression plus chi-square, and
ANOVA, including one- plus two-way ANOVA plus RM-ANOVA.
The course also contains the handouts plus recordings from all SMARTER Workshops for those individuals that are unable to attend at the scheduled time. Anybody interested can self-enroll plus access the videos, handouts, plus datasets. We encourage you to bergabung our Canvas class.

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Consulting Meetings
For college faculty, we offer one-hour meetings to consult about SMARTER issues plus questions. Contact Dr. Mark Van Ryzin for scheduling.

For college graduate students, we offer half-hour meetings with Quantitative Methods Ph.D. student Gregory Arbet. Note that we do not provide SMARTER consulting to support graduate students’ class assignments.

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Email Consulting
We will endeavor to answer short questions about quantitative methods, statistics, plus research design by e-mail within two working days. Note that questions deemed too methodologically complex may be referred to an in-person consultation. Please e-mail your question to [email protected].

Data Analysis Tutorial Meetings
We offer one-hour meetings that are free to all College of Education graduate students to help apply advanced statistical methods to your data.

Start with one or more 30-minute consulting appointments to discuss the research question plus knowledge analysis plan, plus decide on an appropriate statistical method.
Schedule a 1-hour knowledge analysis tutorial appointment with the GRA to conduct some of the knowledge analysis. You will provide the dataset to the GRA at the time of the meeting. The goal will be for you to understand the method plus be able to expand or modify the analysis with minimal additional help. The GRA will provide you with any code from the meeting.
After the tutorial meeting, you may request additional help via e-mail or a follow-up 30-minute consulting meeting.
We are experts in most common techniques in quantitative education research plus in the R plus Mplus statistical software packages. Advanced analyses will be conducted under Mark Van Ryzin’s supervision. GRAs will not write up the analysis, though they will lihat plus comment on a write-up. They will not help with qualifying exams or papers. GRAs need at least a week between an initial consulting appointment plus a knowledge analysis tutorial to allow for preparation. In times of high demand, students may be limited to one analysis appointment or follow-up appointment. Please acknowledge GRAs with co-authorship, when appropriate, in resulting publications.

Grant Proposal Preparation
We will conduct plus write up power analyses plus will help with designing plus writing up of the research plan (data analysis, sampling, psychometric plan, etc.).

While this layanan is free for grant proposals, we request that the SMARTER grup (or affiliated consultants) be included as consultants or Co-investigators on the grant should the proposal be funded. This is necessary to ensure that the SMARTER grup becomes financially self-sustaining. Please book a meeting using the relevant faculty plus student appointment links.

Data Analysis plus Collaboration
For more involved participation in a research project, such as for performing actual knowledge analyses, a SMARTER consultant can be included as a co-investigator or co-principal investigator on a grant proposal or can work on contract with a per-hour fee