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- Evaluated the impact of using Khan Academy on students’ Smarter Balanced assessment scores and on teacher-created assessments.

Boulder, Co

- Prepared materials and co-facilitated professional development meetings on the development of teacher-created learning progressions. - Developed quantitative and qualitative instruments to gather information about teacher, principal, and district perspectives on student learning objectives. - Designed science assessments aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. - Analyzed student assessment data collected from teacher-developed tasks, teacher survey responses, and transcripts of interviews and focus groups.- Evaluated the impact of school participation rate on schools’ mean test scores and achievement gaps using large-scale state administrative data sets, imputation techniques, and multilevel modeling.- Presented technical analyses to key evaluation partners, state accountability working groups, and to professional audiences at national conferences.- Mentored 1-2 junior researchers.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

- Quantitative Methods I & II - Led a weekly class to support first-year doctoral students with statistical software, experimental design, descriptive statistics, linear regression, and basic statistical inference. - Multilevel Modeling - Supported students’ understanding of technical principles of multilevel modeling including model specification, centering decisions, and interpretation of estimates of model parameters.

Princeton, Nj

- Led the development of a Markov Decision Process cognitive model for detecting response strategies related to ratio thinking in scientific inquiry.

Dover, Nh

- Conducted a literature review and developed a conceptual framework for considering balanced assessment systems for states and school districts.

Denver, Co

- Led the evaluation of existing pathways of teacher leadership in the Denver Public Schools through extensive, cross-functional stakeholder interviews. - Developed and implemented a plan for an external vendor to build an improved teacher leader human capital management system to streamline the identification and selection of teacher leaders in the district.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

- Taught 8th grade Physical Science and 10th grade Chemistry.

Bronx, New York, United States

- Developed and taught a curriculum for IB Chemistry and 10th Grade Regents Chemistry. - Led the sophomore grade team in the development and implementation of data-driven methods to assess and intervene in the educational programs of struggling students.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Trained and mentored 10-15 teachers in techniques relevant to developing project-based activitiesand lessons that integrated math, art, and literacy with science.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

- Taught conversational English to 14 sections of 40 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Research And Evaluation Methodology

Master Of Science In Education (M.S.Ed.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry