Education Expert Richburg-Hayes at 2024 SREE

Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, PhD, a Westat educational effectiveness expert, will present at a number of sessions at the 2024 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, to be held September 18-21, 2024. This year’s conference theme is “Navigating the Future of Education Research: Impact Evaluation in a Transforming Landscape.” Richburg-Hayes will be on site to discuss fostering equitable, inclusive, and engaging learning environments, with the goal of improving educational outcomes for all students.

Westat is pleased to be supporting researchers of color and advancing knowledge on how to strengthen research through greater intentionality in research design and analysis.

Make sure to catch Richburg-Hayes at the sessions below:

Wednesday, September 18, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Workshop C.  Revisiting Past Evaluations to Identify Opportunities to Design and Analyze for Equity

Instructors: Rekha Balu, Urban Institute; Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Westat; Beth Boulay, Abt Associates

This workshop will reflect on opportunities to embed equity in impact evaluation. The objective is to provide concrete examples for how evaluation research can be set up and improved at the study design, implementation, and interpretation stages to yield more useful evidence on how to improve equity in education.

Thursday, September 19, 7:45 – 8:45 am

Special Session: Researchers of Color Meeting and Breakfast

Leadership Team: Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Westat; Sarah Peko-Spicer, AIR; Wendy Castillo, Princeton University

Thursday, September 19, 2:15 – 3:15 pm

Special Session: Promoting and Defending Critical Work: Navigating Professional Challenges and Perceptions

Facilitators: Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Westat; Sarah Peko-Spicer, AIR; Wendy Castillo, Princeton University

This session, organized by SREE-Researchers of Color (ROC), will consist of a diverse group (particularly in terms of professional tenure, place of work, gender, race/ethnicity) of discussants, who will share their perspective on how they promote their work professionally when the work is challenged for having a nondominant lens.

Thursday, September 19, 8:00 – 9:30 pm

Researchers of Color Networking Dinner

Coordinators: Sarah Peko-Spicer, AIR; Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Westat

Friday, September 20, 2:15 – 3:15 pm

9H. – Critical Quantitative Approaches for Anti-Racist Transformation in Education

This session uses the Community Circle modality to explore critical quantification and its intersection with educational effectiveness research, through an anti-racist lens. Insights will be drawn from 4 papers on how to (re)imagine, (re)vision, or (re)present effectiveness research in ways that attend to racial (in)justice in education through critical quantitative approaches.