Hi! I'm Jason.
I’m a PhD student at University of Michigan.
I do research about college in the USA
I try to answer interesting questions, such as the following:
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I'm doing research right now. Here's the progress on my current projects.
What is the gap between student-level and professional-level citation practice? Knowing the most common mistakes students make will be the first step in building curriculum that bulwarks budding college students from false information and fake news.
All colleges recommend courses to students. Does the recommendation system itself have an impact on student outcomes? I’m performing a regression discontinuity analysis on a data set with nearly 30,000 students to find out.
Most online classrooms don’t incorporate user analytics into feedback on any level. I argue that including these analytics into course revision create an easily-interpretable, student-centered heuristic for course improvement.
Another regression discontinuity analysis, but this time the placement system includes tentative recommendations and places students into math instead of writing. Similar to the writing RD, but paying attention to the small changes will build policy that benefits a broader base of students.
Overall,
My research brings machine learning and statistical methods to issues typically found in the humanities. I love finding messy data; wrangling it into something useful; and then creating replicable, aggregable, data-driven research.
See my vitae to learn more. Reach out to collaborate!
