Current Activities
Steven Dick is currently employed full time as a statistician in the Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development. The Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development is a multi-disciplinary group of evaluation and research professionals that focus on early childhood, K-12 education, and life-long learning. The Center provides high-quality, rigorous evaluation of programs that are implemented to address learning from birth through adulthood. Applied research is continually conducted in all areas of child education, health, and well-being to ensure a prosperous and healthy future for all of Louisiana's children.The Picard Center is part of the state of Louisiana's nationally recognized effort in school accountability. The Center helps the state evaluate programs. As a social scientist, Steven Dick is proud to lend his support to this research effort.
The
Picard Center for Child has recently broken ground on a new $7.2 million
research and education center located in the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette's research park. This new building promises to advance the field
of education assessment for Louisiana and the country.
Steven
Dick continues an active exchange of teaching and research with faculty
at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. It is a relationship he hopes
will last years.
More Information to Come:
BCFM Survey
Taiwan Election Media Study
Diffusion of Innovations in Reading First
Continued Evacuation of Reading First in Louisiana.
Critical Break Point in DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency: Solving the Second Grade Issue.