Welcome
2024 MIDFIELD Institute
Location: Virtual
Dates: June 11 (office hours)
\(\qquad\ \,\) June 12–14 (workshop)
Time: 1–5 pm Eastern Time (US)
Registration. Click here to email us that you are interested in attending the Institute. If the link fails, email Susan Lord (slord@sandiego.edu) with the subject line Register for 2024 MIDFIELD Institute.
We welcome faculty, staff, graduate students, and anyone interested in exploring MIDFIELD.
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:
- Describe the data available in MIDFIELD
- Describe how the MIDFIELD data are organized
- Describe key principles of effective data visualization
- Draft a research question that can be addressed using MIDFIELD
Computationally, participants should be able use midfieldr, an R package specifically designed for use with MIDFIELD, to:
- Subset MIDFIELD data to obtain a population to study
- Classify student records by desired groupings
- Summarize the data by groups and display results