Ann A. O' Connell, Ed.D
Associate Professor
School of Educational Policy & Leadership
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 multilevel modeling and the analysis of non-linear outcomes; evaluation for health and 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
Books:
O'Connell, A.A. (2006). Logistic Regression Models for Ordinal Response Variables. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Edited Books:
O'Connell, A.A. & McCoach, D.B. (Eds.) (in press). Multilevel Analysis of Educational Data (Eds.). Edited volume sponsored by AERA SIG: Educational Statisticians. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Chapters in Books:
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. (in press). Multilevel Logistic Models. In Multilevel Analysis of Educational Data, Ann A. O'Connell and D.Betsy McCoach (Eds.). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
O'Connell, A.A. & McCoach, D.B. (in press). Introduction: Pedagogy and Context for Multilevel Modeling. In Multilevel Analysis of Educational Data, Ann A. O'Connell and D.Betsy McCoach (Eds.). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Journal Articles
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.
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.
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.
O'Connell, A. A., Ataya, R.L., Zhao, J., Liu, X., & Allen, S. (2006). Web-based instruction for statistical power analysis (Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, International Statistics Institute.