Academic Work

• Raudenbush, S.W., (2009). The Brown Legacy and the O’Connor challenge: Can school improvement reduce racial inequality? Educational Researcher, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp 169‐180.  
• Verbitsky‐Savitz, N., & Raudenbush, S.W., (2009). Exploiting spatial dependence to improve measurement of neighborhood social processes.  Sociological Methodology.  Vol. 39, No. 1, pp 151‐183.  
• Sampson, R.J., Sharkey, P., & Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). Durable effects of concentratedisadvantage on verbal ability of African American children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105(3), 845-852.
• Hong, G., & Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). Causal inference for time-varying instructional treatments.  The Journal of Education and Behavioral Statistics, 33(3), 333-362.
• Raudenbush, S.W., Martinez, A., & Spybrook J. (2007). Strategies for improving precision in group‐randomized experiments. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, (29)1, 5-29
• Reardon, S., & Raudenbush, S. W. (2006). A partial independence item response model for surveys in which responses to filter questions determine whether subsequent questions are asked. Sociological Methodology, 36(1),257-300.

• Raudenbush, S.W. (2009) Can School Improvement Reduce Racial Inequality? Inaugural address presented at the Katholieke Universitiet, Leuven, Belgium
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2009) Advancing Education Policy by Advancing Research on Instruction. Invited lecture at the Katholieke Universitiet, Leuven, Belgium
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). Can School Improvement Reduce Racial Inequality? Department of Psychology Developmental Brown Bag Lecture Series. University of Chicago.
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). Adaptive Centering with Random Effects: An Alternative to the Fixed Effects Model. Institute for Policy Research. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). The Urban Education Initiative at the University of Chicago. The Franke Institute for the Humanities Faculty Lunch Series. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

• Hong, Guanglei and Raudenbush S.W., (2009) Applying Hierarchical Models to Causal Inference. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Training Session. American Educational Research Association 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2008). The Brown Legacy and the O’Connor Challenge: Transforming Schools To Realize Children’s Potential. The Annual Brown Lecture of the American Educational Research Association. Washington, DC
• Raudenbush, S. W. (2008) Causal Inference in Multi-Level Setting. National Institutes of Health. APA Board of Convention Affairs Meeting. Boston, MA
• Raudenbush, S.W., and Hong, G. (2008) An Overview of Causal inference Theories and Methods in Education. Director for Professional Development Training Program. American Educational Research Association 2008 Annual Meeting. New York, NY
• Raudenbush, S.W., and Reardon, S. (2008) Assumptions of Value-Added Models for Estimating Schools Effects. Presented at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) National Conference on Value-Added Modeling at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Madison, WS
• Raudenbush, S.W. (2008) Adaptive Centering with Random Effects: An Alternative to the Fixed Effects Model for Time-Varying Treatments. Presented at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) National Conference on Value-Added Modeling at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Madison, WS