Welcome

2022 MIDFIELD Institute
Date: August 3–5
Time: 1–5 pm Eastern Time (US)
Location: Virtual
Pre-workshop: 1–5 pm, August 2

We welcome faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Our learning objectives can be categorized in two broad classes: qualitative and computational. Qualitatively, by the end of the workshop participants should be able to:

1. Describe the data available in MIDFIELD
   
2. Describe how the MIDFIELD data are organized
   
3. Describe key principles of effective data visualization

Computationally, participants should be able use midfieldr, an R package specifically designed for use with MIDFIELD, to:

1. Subset MIDFIELD data to obtain a population to study
   
2. Classify the student records by desired groupings
   
3. Summarize the data by groups and display results