Tasha Beretvas

About

Tasha Beretvas is a professor in the Quantitative Methods program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the university's faculty in 2000 and has served as the Quantitative Methods program chair and the College of Education's associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Currently, she holds the position of Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Beretvas is involved in various college and university committees, including serving on UT's Faculty Council and co-chairing the Employment Issues subcommittee of UT's Gender Equity Council. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and a faculty associate of UT's Population Research Center. Her teaching includes undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and she has received several teaching awards. Her research focuses on statistical models, particularly multilevel model extensions and meta-analysis models for educational, behavioral, social, and medical science data. Beretvas holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and psychology from Duke University and earned her master's and doctoral degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Selected publications

• The application of meta-analytic (multi-level) models with multiple random effects: A systematic review

  Behavior Research Methods · 2020-03-11 · 164 citations

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• Estimating outcome-specific effects in meta-analyses of multiple outcomes: A simulation study

  Behavior Research Methods · 2020-08-17 · 58 citations

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• A systematic review of single-case experimental design meta-analyses: characteristics of study designs, data, and analyses

  Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention · 2022-06-22 · 41 citations

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  AbstractGiven the increasing interest in meta-analyses of Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) studies mainly in the fields of behavioral, communication disorders, educational, and rehabilitation research, the aim of the present review is to determine the general characteristics of these meta-analyses, namely design characteristics, the kind of data provided in the primary studies and the ones included in meta-analyses, and the type of analyses that were conducted. In this review, 178 meta-ana…

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• A meta-analysis of teachers’ provision of structure in the classroom and students’ academic competence beliefs, engagement, and achievement

  Educational Psychologist · 2023-11-20 · 37 citations

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  Structure reflects a variety of practices teachers use with the intent to guide students' behavior and increase academic success. A research synthesis was conducted on the role of classroom structure in the academic engagement, disengagement, competence beliefs, and achievement of preschool through high school students. A meta-analysis of 191 samples from 165 correlational studies revealed statistically significant correlations with achievement (.11), engagement (.28), and competence beliefs (.2…

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• Cluster wild bootstrapping to handle dependent effect sizes in meta‐analysis with a small number of studies

  Research Synthesis Methods · 2022-02-25 · 35 citations

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  The most common and well-known meta-regression models work under the assumption that there is only one effect size estimate per study and that the estimates are independent. However, meta-analytic reviews of social science research often include multiple effect size estimates per primary study, leading to dependence in the estimates. Some meta-analyses also include multiple studies conducted by the same lab or investigator, creating another potential source of dependence. An increasingly popular…

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Labs

• Educational PsychologyPI

Awards & honors

• 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Washington
• Graduate Teaching Award, University Co-Op (2016)
• John L. and Elizabeth G. Hill Centennial Professorship, Univ…
• Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Texas at…
• M.K. Hage Centennial Professorship, University of Texas at A…

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