Ann A. O'Connell, Ed.D

Professor and Director, Methodology Core, International Poverty Solutions Collaborative

Office: 211A Ramseyer Hall
Phone: (614) 247-6886
Fax: (614) 292-7020
Email: oconnell.87@osu.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Education

• Ed.D. in Measurement and Evaluation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993
• MS in Statistics, University of Connecticut, 1985
• BA in Mathematics, Western New England College, 1983

Scholarly Interests

Statistical methods, with an emphasis on single and multilevel generalized linear models; evaluation of professional development and health/education programs or interventions, particularly for HIV prevention; secondary analysis of large-scale databases; capacity building for community-based organizations; translation of evidence-based interventions.

Selected Publications

I. Books

• O'Connell, A.A. & McCoach, D.B. (Eds.) (2008). Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
• O'Connell, A.A. (2006). Logistic Regression Models for Ordinal Response Variables. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

II. Book Chapters

• O'Connell, A.A. & Amico, K.R. (2010). Logistic Regression. In The Reviewers Guide to Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, Gregory R. Hancock and Ralph O. Mueller (Eds.). Routledge.
• Snyder, L. & O'Connell, A.A. (2008). Event History Analysis for Communications Research. In Sage Handbook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research, M.D. Slater, A.F. Hayes, and L. B. Snyder, (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• O'Connell, A.A., Goldstein, J., Rogers, J. & Peng, C.J. (2008). Multilevel Logistic Models for Dichotomous and Ordinal Data. In Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data, Ann A. O'Connell and D.Betsy McCoach (Eds.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
• O'Connell, A.A. & McCoach, D.B. (2008). Introduction: Pedagogy and Context for Multilevel Modeling. In Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data, Ann A. O'Connell and D.Betsy McCoach (Eds.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

III. Peer-reviewed Publications

• Gray, D. L., Anderman, E. M., & O'Connell, A. A. (in press). Associations of teacher credibility and teacher affinity with learning outcomes in health classrooms. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal.
• Osborn CY, Amico KR, Cruz N, O'Connell A, Perez-Escamilla R, Kalichman SC, Wolf SA, Fisher, JD. (in press). A brief culturally-tailored intervention for Puerto Ricans with Type 2 diabetes. Health Education and Behavior.
• O'Connell, A.A. & Gray. D.L. (in press). Cause and event: Supporting causal claims through logistic models. Submitted to Educational Psychology Review (special issue).
• Sackes, M., Trundle, K.C., Bell, R.L., & O'Connell, A.A. (2011). The influence of early science experience in kindergarten on children's immediate and later science achievement: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
• Pescattello, L. , Blanchard, B.E., Tsongalis, G.J., O'Connell, A.A., Gordish-Dressman, H., Maresh, C.M, & Thompson, P.D. (2008). A comparison of the genetic and clinical profile of men that respond and do not respond to the immediate antihypertensive effects of aerobic exercise. The Application of Clinical Genetics, 1, 7-17.
• Pescatello, L.S., Blanchard, B.E., Tsongalis, G.J., Maresh, C.M., O'Connell, A.A., & Thompson, P.D., (2007). The a Adducin Gly460Trp polymorphism and the antihypertensive effects of exercise among men with high blood pressure. Clinical Science, 113, 251-258.
• O'Connell, A.A. & Levitt Doucette, H. (2007). Modeling longitudinal ordinal response variables for educational data. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 6(1), 304-319.
• McCoach, D.B., Black, A., & O'Connell, A.A. (2007). Errors of inference in structural equation modeling. Psychology in the Schools, 44(5), 461-470.
• McCoach, D.B., O'Connell, A.A. Reis, S.M., & Levitt, H.A. (2006). Growing readers: A hierarchical linear model of children's reading growth during the first 2 years of school. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(1), p. 14-28.
• McCoach, D.B., O'Connell., A.A., Levitt, H.A., & Reis, S.M. (2006). Ability grouping across kindergarten using an early childhood longitudinal study. Journal of Educational Research, 99(6), 339-346.
• Pescatello, L.S., Blanchard, B.E., & O'Connell, A.A. (2005). Reply to Atkinson, et al. Journal of Hypertension, 23.
• O'Connell, A.A. & McCoach, D.B. (2004). Applications of hierarchical linear modeling for evaluation of health interventions : Demystifying the methods and interpretation of multilevel models. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 27(2), 119-151.
• Semaan, S., Lauby, J., O'Connell, A.A., & Cohen, A. (2003). Correlates of decisional balance for condom use with main partner among women at risk for HIV infection. Women and Health, 37(3), 53-69.
• O'Connell, A.A. & Schrader, P.G. (2003). Introduction to probability: A hypercard tutoring system. International Journal of Instructional Media, 30(3), 1-10.