Kudos

Congratulations to Baron Wolf. Baron who has been selected as a Fellow for the 2011 National Summer Data Policy Institute on the datasets of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and National Science Foundation (NSF). The Institute will be held in Washington, D.C. later this summer.

The Institute aims to achieve four major objectives:

• Stimulate interest in using national data to address research questions in institutional research, the social sciences, and education
• Instruct participants in the methods of using national data to conduct analyses, with primary emphasis on the new Web-based data analysis systems developed by NSF and NCES
• Enhance understanding about methodological and technological issues relevant to national data collection
• Encourage collaboration between participants and NSF and NCES staff to improve future data collection and analysis