E. C. Hedberg

Senior Research Scientist

Academic Research Centers

E. C. Hedberg is a Senior Research Scientist at NORC. Hedberg's current area of research includes investigating the design of education interventions. He is CO-PI with Larry Hedges on an IES project "State-specific Design Parameters for Designing Better Evaluation Studies" which seeks to use state longitudinal data systems to provide important experimental design parameters.

Hedberg is also active in family research.  He wrote his dissertation on intergenerational exchange and used multi-level models to investigate dyadic exchanges between respondents and their family members.

Hedberg also served as Research Director at Arizona State University's College of Public Programs in 2010-2011.

He has co-authored several methodological pieces that have appeared in education, medical, and criminological journals. To see more of Hedberg's work, visit Google Scholar.

Representative Projects

State-specific Design Parameters for Designing Better Evaluation Studies.  More

Survey of Doctorate Recipients. NORC conducts the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The SDR is a survey of 40,000 science and engineering doctorate recipients who earned their degrees from institutions within the United States.  More

Growth Model Pilot Program Under No Child Left Behind (GMPP). The GMPP is an ambitious effort to improve how student achievement data are analyzed and used to assess the effectiveness of schools and school systems under the accountability provisions of the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind). More