NCPI affiliate Cory Koedel, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has been awarded the American Educational Research Association (Division of Education Policy and Politics) Outstanding Dissertation of the Year. The national award was presented at the organization’s annual conference on March 25 in New York City. Koedel’s dissertation was completed at the University of California, San Diego in 2007 with support from a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. According to the dissertation award committee chair, the dissertation “provides important new insights into the measurement of teacher productivity using value-added modeling.”