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539
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257

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Daniel F. McCaffrey is affiliated with the Educational Testing Service in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Mathematics, with a significant focus on subfields such as Statistics and Probability, Education, and Artificial Intelligence. Additional areas of study include Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

McCaffrey has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Journal of Educational Measurement
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ETS Research Report Series
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Their recent papers include:

  • Writing motivation: A validation study of self-judgment and performance (2021), Assessing Writing
  • Practical challenges in mediation analysis: a guide for applied researchers (2024), Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
  • Optimizing Implementation of Artificial-Intelligence-Based Automated Scoring: An Evidence Centered Design Approach for Designing Assessments for AI-based Scoring (2022), Journal of Educational Measurement
  • Recommendations about estimating errors-in-variables regression in Stata (2020), The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
  • Psychometric Methods to Evaluate Measurement and Algorithmic Bias in Automated Scoring (2022), Journal of Educational Measurement

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Beth Ann Griffin
  • Donna L. Coffman
  • Matthew Cefalu
  • Brian Vegetabile
  • Lane F. Burgette

In addition to journal articles, McCaffrey has several book publications under the RAND Corporation eBooks publisher. The titles include:

  • Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial for the R TWANG Package (2022)
  • Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Three or More Treatment Groups (2020)
  • Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny App for Two Treatments (2020)
  • Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Time-Varying Treatments (2021)
  • State-of-the-Art Strategies for Addressing Selection Bias When Comparing Two or More Treatment Groups (2020)

Daniel F. McCaffrey was awarded the Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Propensity score estimation with boosted regression for evaluating causal effects in observational studies.

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;Greg Ridgeway;Andrew R. Morral

  • A tutorial on propensity score estimation for multiple treatments using generalized boosted models.

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;Beth Ann Griffin;Daniel Almirall;Mary Ellen Slaughter

  • Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability. Monograph.

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;J. R. Lockwood;Daniel M. Koretz;Laura S. Hamilton

  • Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study

    M F Shapiro;S C Morton;D F McCaffrey;J W Senterfitt

  • Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects.

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;J. R. Lockwood;Daniel Koretz;Thomas A. Louis

  • Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;Daniel Koretz;J. R. Lockwood;Laura S. Hamilton

  • The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States

    S A Bozzette;S H Berry;N Duan;M R Frankel;M R Frankel

  • Have We Identified Effective Teachers?: Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment

    Thomas J. Kane;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Trey Miller;Douglas Staiger

  • The Intertemporal Variability of Teacher Effect Estimates

    Daniel F. McCaffrey;Tim R. Sass;J. R. Lockwood;Kata Mihaly

  • Health-related quality of life in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the United States: results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study.

    Ron D Hays;Ron D Hays;William E Cunningham;Cathy D Sherbourne;Ira B Wilson

  • Reassessing the Marijuana Gateway Effect

    Andrew R. Morral;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Susan Paddock

  • Does alcohol advertising promote adolescent drinking? Results from a longitudinal assessment

    Phyllis L. Ellickson;Rebecca L. Collins;Katrin Hambarsoomians;Daniel F. McCaffrey

  • Finding chaos in noisy systems

    Douglas Nychka;Stephen Ellner;A. Ronald Gallant;Daniel McCaffrey

  • The Vemont Portfolio Assessment Program: Findings and Implications

    Daniel Koretz;Brian M. Stecher;Stephen P. Klein;Daniel F. McCaffrey

  • Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT).

    Matthew G. Springer;Dale Ballou;Laura Hamilton;Vi-Nhuan Le

  • Impact of psychiatric conditions on health-related quality of life in persons with HIV infection

    Cathy D. Sherbourne;Ron D. Hays;John Fleishman;Benedetto Vitiello

  • What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us

    Stephen P. Klein;Laura S. Hamilton;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Brian M. Stecher

  • Teacher Pay For Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching

    Matthew G. Springer;Laura Hamilton;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Dale Ballou

  • Expenditures for the care of HIV-infected patients in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy

    Samuel A. Bozzette;Samuel A. Bozzette;Samuel A. Bozzette;Geoffrey Joyce;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Arleen A. Leibowitz;Arleen A. Leibowitz

  • Effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor Algebra I at Scale

    John F. Pane;Beth Ann Griffin;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Rita T. Karam

  • New Inroads in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Results From a Large-Scale Trial of Project ALERT in Middle Schools

    Phyllis L. Ellickson;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar;Douglas L. Longshore

  • ISSUE PAPER: What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us?

    Stephen P. Klein;Laura S. Hamilton;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Brian M. Stecher

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian M. Stecher
Brian M. Stecher RAND Corporation
Laura S. Hamilton
Laura S. Hamilton RAND Corporation
Rebecca L. Collins
Rebecca L. Collins RAND Corporation
Marc N. Elliott
Marc N. Elliott RAND Corporation
Dana P. Goldman
Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California
Grant N. Marshall
Grant N. Marshall RAND Corporation
Douglas Longshore
Douglas Longshore University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa H. Jaycox
Lisa H. Jaycox RAND Corporation
Maria Orlando Edelen
Maria Orlando Edelen RAND Corporation
Tim R. Sass
Tim R. Sass Georgia State University

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