Dr. Schroeder's overarching research focus is the enablement of Evidence-Based Policy-Making and Program Evaluation through the Secure Liberation, Integration, and Analysis of Administrative Data.
Dr. Schroeder has extensive experience in the technologies and related policies of information/data integration and systems analysis, policy and program development and implementation, quantitative and qualitative methodologies of evaluation, and the general application of data and web technologies to the enhancement of public and private sector services.
A particular focus of Dr. Schroeder's research has been on the integration and analysis of education, health, social service, and non-profit administrative data streams for the purpose of conducting policy analyses and program evaluations impacting a wide range of constituents, including pre-K child social and health service recipients; child care service operators; primary, secondary, post-secondary and adult education service recipients; state workforce training service recipients; and, U.S. veteran health and social service recipients.
- Grants Received
Since beginning his research career at Virginia Tech, Dr. Schroeder has served as Principal Investigator on over $10M of research with funding provided from the federal government (National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Transportation), state government (Virginia Department of Social Services, Virginia Department of Education, Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Emergency Services, Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia Department of Veteran Services), foundations (Generations United (GU), MET Life Foundation, Virginia Early Childhood Foundation), and the private sector (Shenandoah Telecommunications Corporation).
- Integration Projects
- the USED-funded Virginia Statewide Longitudinal Data System
- the USHHS-funded Project Child HANDS
- the USDOT-funded design, development, deployment, and evaluation of the first statewide travel information system, Virginia 511
- Research Interests
Data Repurposing; Record Linkage/Entity Resolution; Organization Theory; Policy Analytics; Research Design; Quantitative & Qualitative Data Analysis; Information Policy; Privacy Law Policy & Implementation; Network Analysis; Information Management; Information Integration; Data Management; Big Data; Web-Enabled Public Services
- Awards and Honors
(2013) Winner, Cross-Boundary Collaboration on IT Initiatives, Government Technology's annual Commonwealth of Virginia’s Innovative Technology Symposium (COVITS 2013). Awarded for the creation of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS), a multi-agency data integration system for Virginia.
(2010) Invited participant to the Virginia Governor's Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) on Cross-Agency Data Integration. (2009) Invited expert on methods of public-sector data integration and issues created by federal and state privacy laws for a workshop on Research Use of State Longitudinal Data Systems sponsored by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
(1999) Nominated by the Association of State Governments for Award in Innovation in State Government for the design, development, and deployment of Travel Shenandoah, a public-private partnership for Advanced Traveler Information Systems in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. (1999) Appointed Member of the Congressional Commission on I-81 Truck Safety.- Education
Ph.D. in Public Policy & Administration, Virginia Tech University
M.P.A. in Public Administration, James Madison University
B.A. in Psychology, University of Delaware