Papers by Audrey Leroux and Myriam Lopez of the Translational Research Institute and S. Natasha Beretvas of the MCPER Board of Directors won awards at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, held from April 13 to 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Leroux and Beretvas won the best paper award in the Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group for “Using the Multiple Membership Random Effects Model to Estimate Treatment Effects With Condition- and Cluster-Switchers.” Lopez won third place among papers presented at the Measurement and Research Methodology Division In-Progress Research Gala for “The Estimation of Latent Variable Interactions: A Comparison of the Unconstrained and the Latent Moderated Structural Equations (LMS) Approach for Parceled and Individual Items.”
