Sarah von Schrader Research Associate
Address:	306 Dolgen Hall	Phone: 607) 254-8088
	Cornell University	Fax: (607) 255-2763
	Ithaca, NY 14853	Email: sv282@cornell.edu

Sarah joined the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI), School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in June 2009. She is currently working as a Research Associate for the New York Makes Work Pay Medicaid Infrastructure Grant. She is focusing on creating a conceptual model for an across agency database of service delivery and demographic characteristics of persons with disabilities. In addition, she is involved in a project using U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Integrated Mission System to evaluate employment discrimination.

Prior to coming to Cornell, Sarah was involved in multiple research projects, primarily in the areas of educational testing and health policy and management. After receiving her master’s degree, she spent three years as a senior research assistant in the Health Services Research and Development Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. During graduate school, she was a teaching assistant for graduate and undergraduate statistic courses at the University of Iowa and a research assistant for the Iowa Testing Programs. Her dissertation research explored the use of cognitive diagnosis models with achievement test data. Most recently she was the Coordinator of Assessment at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK).

Education

• Ph.D. 2006 – University of Iowa, Educational Measurement and Statistics
• M.A. 1998 – University of Iowa, Educational Measurement and Statistics
• B.A. 1994 – Colorado College, Mathematics