Tracy Morrison Sweet, Statistics
2nd  year PIER, 3rd  year Stats
Tracy came to CMU to explore her interest in statistics and education research and how they fit together. She has been fortunate to work on two interdisciplinary projects, one with faculty and student from the robotics department examining student success using a reading tutor and one with students from PIER analyzing items from a fractions test. She spent this past summer working with a professor at University of Pittsburgh doing a post-analysis of survey and observational data to determine whether pressure to prepare students for high stakes tests predicts a decline in instructional quality.

She is particularly interested in policy research, namely how data can help answer district and state level questions and improve policy decisions. She spent last summer She will spend this upcoming year working with researchers from Johns Hopkins on multi-district experiment investigating how best to teach double-dose ninth grade mathematics.

Tracy graduated from Bucknell University with a BS in Biology and spent five years teaching high school math, and one year writing math curriculum for a high school reform organization. She is an animal lover at heart (just ask her two dogs, two cats, fish, and frogs) and recently started training for triathlons.