RMME Community members, Dr. D. Betsy McCoach and Dr. Sarah D. Newton, collaborated with colleagues this spring to offer several methodological workshops for members of the I-MTSS Research Network’s Early Career Scholars Program. Workshops included:
| Workshop Title | Description | Facilitators |
| Learning how to “p” (December 2021) | Everyone uses p’s, but very few know how to p. In this session, we will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of p-values and we will provide more nuanced guidance on how to make sense of your research results. | Betsy McCoach and Yaacov Petscher |
| Hungry for Power (November 2021) | All researchers seek power— statistical power, that is. In this session, we will explore the power game and how to “play” it. | Betsy McCoach and Yaacov Petscher |
| A Bird’s Eye View of Nesting (January 2022) |
Nested data are the norm in educational studies. Some consider nesting a nuisance, but nested data also provides opportunities to ask and answer a wide variety of research questions that are important to educational researchers. | Betsy McCoach and Yaacov Petscher |
| Data Cleanup in Aisle 2! (Mop and Bucket Not Included) (February 2022) |
This workshop will help participants to develop a clearer sense of the data cleaning and preparation process: (1) Setting up workflows and structures for success, (2) Identifying data entry errors; (3) Creating, recoding, and naming variables for analysis; (4) Conducting preliminary analyses; (5) Knowing your software; and (6) Understanding your planned analysis and its needs (with special attention given to multilevel modeling). | Sarah D. Newton and Kathleen Lynne Lane |
| What’s Your Logic? Tell Me–What’s Your Logic? (May 2022) | The current workshop focuses on how to use logic models to convey the theory of change (TOC) underlying a program/intervention of interest in research and/or evaluation contexts. In this hands-on workshop, participants will collaborate in groups to build a TOC model for the I-MTSS Research Network project with which they are most familiar. Participants will then share and briefly describe their work for the larger group. | Sarah D. Newton and Nathan Clemens |
Congratulations on your contributions to a successful workshop series!