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Eric R. Zeidman
Senior Survey Researcher
Eric Zeidman is a senior survey researcher with expertise in large school-based studies, including randomized controlled trials and cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. He is experienced in district and school recruiting, random assignment, and development and implementation of complex sampling plans.
Zeidman is survey director for two national studies of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP): School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-IV and the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program (SBP) Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification (APEC)-II. In his role on APEC, he coordinates and leads the survey research effort to produce national estimates of erroneous payments made under the NSLP and SBP during the 2012 –2013 school year. Mathematica conducts these studies for U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service.
Zeidman has published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and holds an Ed.M. in educational statistics, measurement, and evaluation from Rutgers University.
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- Large school-based studies, including randomized controlled trials and cross-sectional and longitudinal designs
- District and school recruiting, random assignment, and development and implementation of complex sampling plans
- National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study-II
- National Longitudinal Transition Study-2012
- School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study-IV
- Member, American Association for Public Opinion Research
- "The Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Background and Study Design." Journal of the American Dietetic Association (February 2009)