Syeda Farwa Fatima Program: Human Development & Quantitative Methods, Ph.D.

Anticipated Graduation: December 2020

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Research Interests and Current Projects

Research:
World Bank Group
-Supporting psychometric analyses for the development and validation of Teach - a classroom observation tool to assess primary school teaching practices in developing countries
University of Pennsylvania
-Predicting teacher retention in the United States (using machine learning techniques and survival analysis)
-Examining developmental trajectories of at-risk children (using latent growth mixture modeling)
-Analyzing professional well-being of student-teachers in rural Ghana (using a cumulative risk framework)
-Assessing educational equity for children with disabilities in Pakistan (using a fixed effects model)

Teaching:
University of Pennsylvania
-Co-instructor for Survey Methods and Design (EDUC 680) Spring 2019
-Instructor for Introductory Statistics For Educational Research (EDUC 667) Summer 2018
-Graduate Teaching Assistant for Measurement Theory and Test Construction (EDUC 768) in Spring 2019 and Program Evaluation (EDUC 680) in Fall 2017

Interest Categories

K-12 Education
Global & International Education
Quantitative Research
Psychology & Human Development

Education

M.S (Statistics) Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2019.
M.S.Ed (International Education Policy) Harvard University, 2016.
B.S.c Hons (Economics) Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2014.

Faculty Advisors

Robert Boruch
University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Statistics

Areas Of Expertise

Program evaluation, causal inference, psychometrics, big data, machine learning

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