About MDRC
As a technical research analyst, Biedzio helps colleges and universities use data to provide student services efficiently and successfully. Her projects include two randomized controlled trials: Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success, which provides technology tools and data that help support students, and Dana Center Mathematics Pathways, which allows community college students to complete relevant, credit-bearing, and transferable mathematics courses. Before joining MDRC in 2019, Biedzio worked in developmental psychology research focusing on child development in low-income populations. She also worked as a quantitative and statistical consultant, helping with complex power analyses and machine-learning projects. She holds a BS in education and social policy with a concentration in psychology from Northwestern University and an MS in applied statistics from New York University.
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MDRC Publications
Issue FocusA Synthesis of Post-Program Effects in Higher Education
March, 2021Some education programs’ early positive effects disappear over time, while other programs have unanticipated positive long-term effects. This Issue Focus introduces The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trials, an examination of program effects after a postsecondary education program ends, using a database drawn from 31 MDRC projects, sampling 67,400 students.
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Other Publications
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Projects
Alexander Mayer, Melissa Boynton, Michelle Ware, John Diamond, Rebekah O'Donoghue, Edith Yang, Dorota Biedzio, Erika B. LewyIntegrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) is an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently made its second large investment in 26 colleges and universities engaged in technology-mediated advising reform.
The iPASS initiative provides technology tools and data about students’ academic performance to both...
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow, Evan Weissman, Alexander Mayer, Amanda Grossman, John Diamond, Susan Sepanik, Dorota BiedzioAs community colleges try to increase graduation rates, one of the greatest challenges they face is improving the success of students in their developmental, or remedial, education programs. The Dana Center Mathematics Pathways ( DCMP ), formerly known as the New Mathways Project, was developed by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, in...