THE CoCoaPower PROJECT GROUP—WHO WE ARE
Sophie is a postdoc at the chair of Quantitative Methods in Educational Sciences at the University of Potsdam. Her dissertation in the context of MULTI-DES focuses on design parameters for student achievement to optimize power analysis for RTs. Apart from experimental design and power analysis, her research interests also cover cognitive and socio-emotional development, multilevel and latent variable modeling, meta-analysis, and R programming.
Martin is a full professor and leads the chair of Quantitative Methods in Educational Sciences at the University of Potsdam. His main research interests are cognitive and socio-emotional skills, large-scale assessments, and quantitative methods including integrative data analysis/meta-analysis and multilevel modeling. He has distinguished expertise in various fields of educational research and statistics. As the head of MULTI-DES, he demonstrates long-standing experiences in research design, in particular with regard to design parameters, effect size benchmarks, and power analysis.
CoCoaPower is funded by Larry V. Hedges through a grant awarded to him
by the Yidan Prize Foundation in 2018.
by the Yidan Prize Foundation in 2018.
Larry is the board of trustees professor of statistics and data science and education and social policy, professor of psychology, professor of medical social sciences, and co-director of the STEPP Center at Northwestern University. He is a world-renowned scholar in statistics and quantitative evaluation research, particularly with respect to research design and power analysis including design parameters, as well as research synthesis/meta-analysis.