Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten
Denker, H. & Atteberry, A. (2021). "Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten". Working Paper.
CV
Areas of Interest
Early childhood education, quantitative methods, causal inference, education policy analysis, production of social inequality
Education
- Ph.D in Research and Evaluation Methodology, University of Colorado Boulder, May 2023 (expected)
- Comprehensive Exam Committee Members: Dr. Allison Atteberry, Dr. Mimi Engel, and Dr. Melissa Braaten
- M.S. in Educational Technology/School Library Media, Oklahoma State University, 2013
- Advisor: Dr. Susan L. Stansberry
- B.S. in Elementary Education, Oklahoma State University, 2011
- Summa Cum Laude, General Honors Award
Research
- University of Virginia
- Graduate Research Assistant, August 2022 – Present
- Supervisor: Dr. Allison Atteberry
- Project Title:
- Understanding the Effects of Financial Bonuses on Child Care Staff Retention – Wrote IRB for this study of a mid-Atlantic state’s randomized control design study of the effect of retention bonuses on the early childhood workforce; designed, programmed, and administered survey instruments in Qualtrics.
- Lyons Assessment Consulting
- Research Assistant, January 2022 – Present
- Supervisor: Dr. Susan Lyons
- Project Title:
- Various Projects – Conducted item-level analyses of grade 2-8 summative assessment data for teacher-designed classroom modules; conducted qualitative analyses for research study of a mid-Atlantic state seeking to understand how best to revise descriptors on state achievement tests to be less negative; conducted qualitative analyses for a research study investigating the effect of culturally responsive reading assessments in a large urban school district; designed and implemented a professional development workshop series on assessment literacy for elementary school teachers in a large, urban district.
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Graduate Research Assistant, May 2021 – Present
- Supervisor: Dr. Karl Hill
- Project Title:
- High School LifeSkills Training RCT Study – Coordinated primary data collection efforts via online student survey administration; communicated consistently with school coordinators; drove school and student retention efforts; preliminary data cleaning; built school-level data reports using R Markdown.
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Graduate Research Assistant, August 2017 – Present
- Supervisor: Dr. Allison Atteberry
- Project Title:
- Westminster Public Schools Full-Day Preschool RCT Study – Conducted student assessments; analyzed data using Stata and Excel; reported results from an RCT studying the effects of full-day preschool on measures of school readiness; wrote academic papers documenting results.
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Graduate Research Assistant, August 2018 – Present
- Supervisor: Dr. Mimi Engel
- Project Titles:
- Variation in Early Mathematics Instruction Across Grades and Schools in NYC – Conducted classroom observations; qualitatively coded math standards for K-3rd grades
- Replication and Robustness in Quantitative Education Research – Coded characteristics of published studies that indicate they included robustness or replication elements.
- The Effects of Pre-K Curricula on Outcomes – Wrote the section of a literature review identifying effective pre-K literacy curricula for child and classroom outcomes in addition to a section describing how early childhood education research has impacted curricula development
- Oklahoma State University
- Graduate Research Assistant, August 2011 – May 2013
- Supervisor: Dr. Susan Stansberry
- Coordinated the Teacher Education Network (TEN), a new program that supported recent teacher graduates and kept them remotely connected to the university’s teacher education program
- Assisted the Professional Education Unit with managing the administrative records of teacher interns
Publications
Conference Presentations
Comparing academic time use across second and third grades
Paper Session at Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri
And then comes testing: How schools reallocate classroom time when high-stakes testing begins in 3rd grade
Paper Session at Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Time to learn: Instructional time use in pre-Kindergarten
Paper Session at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Conference Cancelled), San Francisco, California
Teaching
Methodological Coursework
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Multilevel Modeling
- Categorical Data Analysis
- Measurement in Survey Research
- Item Response Theory
- Advanced Topics in Measurement
- Applied Microeconometrics
- Labor Economics
Professional Organizations and Service
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Finalist Weekend Volunteer, 2018-2019
- Provided support for new applicants to PhD program
- Finalist Weekend Volunteer, 2018-2019
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Student Member, 2017 – Present
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
- Student Member, 2018 – Present