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Jill Bowdon

Senior Researcher

Jill Bowdon is a senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research. Dr. Bowdon has extensive training in statistical methods appropriate for making causal inferences, including experimental design and quasi-experimental methods. Altogether, she has 10 years of experience performing education research. Dr. Bowdon is a lead analyst for the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest and for the REL Northeast and Islands, research centers funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).  In her role as lead analyst, Dr. Bowdon assists with research design and analysis of experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational data.

Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Bowdon was an Institute for Education Sciences (IES) Postdoctoral training fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bowdon earned her Ph.D. from the Sociology Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was also an IES Pre-doctoral training fellow. She started her career as a fourth-grade teacher.

Related Work

30 Oct 2019
Report

Children’s Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois

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Reducing Summer Melt and Improving College Persistence: Testing the Effectiveness of a Light-touch Text Messaging Intervention

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Changing the Trajectories of Children in Foster Care: The Safe Babies Court Team Evaluation

1 Feb 2017
Brief

Mentoring for At-Risk High School Students: Findings From a Study of Check & Connect

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Areas of Expertise

Education
Social and Emotional Learning
STEM

Education

Ph.D. and M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Sociology/Anthropology, Earlham College

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