contact: dkatz@education.ucsb.edu

EDUCATION

PhD (2021): Education - Research Methods and Philosophy of Measurement
University, of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Andrew Maul

M.A. (2017) Education (Quantitative Research Methods) Thesis: Validating a Multidimensional Measure of Reading Strategy Use with the Rasch Model University of California, Santa Barbara
Committee: Andrew Maul, Karen Nylund-Gibson, Diana Arya

BA (2011), Political Science, Minor in History
University of California, Santa Barbara


RESEARCH INTERESTS


The Rasch Model and Item Response Theory
Measurement Invariance
Explanatory Item Response Models
Philosophy of Measurement and Probability
Casual Inference
Measuring student literacy and other non-academic abilities


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE


University of Florida, Virtual Learning Lab – IES Funded Grant (2019-Present)

UCSB Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) (2018-Present)

New York City Department of Education Assessment, Design, and Evaluation Team (Summer 2018)

UCSB California Dropout Research Project (CDRP) and Get Focused Stay Focused Evaluations (2016-2019)

UCSB General Education Assessment Project, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment Research Group (2016-2018)


PUBLISHED WORK


Arya, Diana, Clairmont, A. Katz, Daniel & Maul, A. (2020) Measuring Reading Strategy Use, Educational Assessment, 25:1, 5-30, DOI: 10.1080/10627197.2019.1702464

Maul, A. and Katz, D. (2018). Internal Validity. In B. Frey (Editor), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Katz, D. (2017, May). An Update: The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students. (CDRP Statistical Brief No. 24). Retrieved from http://cdrpsb.org/pubs_statbriefs.htm

Katz, D. (2017, March). The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students. (CDRP Statistical Brief No. 23). Retrieved from http://cdrpsb.org/pubs_statbriefs.htm. The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS


Katz, D. and Diakow, R. (2019, April). Using Explanatory Item Response Theory Models to Re-Examine Fairness in Psychometrics. Paper to be presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) April 4-8, 2019. Toronto.

Katz, D.v, Nylund-Gibson, K., Furlong, M. (2019, April). Is One Item Enough? Examining Affect-Laden Survey Items Using Mixture Modelling with Distal Outcomes. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 5-9, 2019. Toronto.
Best Graduate Student Paper in the AERA Survey Special Interest Group Sig

Katz, D., Clairmont, A., Arya, D., & Maul, A., (2018, April). Measuring Reading Strategy Use in a Multilingual Context. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 13-17, 2018. New York.

Katz, D., Clairmont, A., Arya, D. & Maul, A. (2018, April). Measuring Reading Strategy Use in a Multidimensional, Multilingual Context. Paper presented at the International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW), April 10-12, 2018. New York.


SELECT IN PROGRESS RESEARCH PROJECTS


Clairmont, A. & Katz D. (in preperation) Using Rasch Measurement Theory for Program Evaluation: A Methods Note. To be submitted to American Journal of Evaluation

Reconsidering fairness in educational assessment: using tools from ethics, causal inference, and psychometrics

Using Rasch Measurement Theory for program evaluation

Measuring subjective well-being and other constructs in positive psychology using mixture modelling approaches (with an emphasis on educational settings).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE


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STATISTICAL SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE