Associate Professor to be on Team that Evaluates National Program

Jan. 21, 2015

Dr. Jessaca Spybrook, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology, will be working with the Abt Associates team as a technical assistant liaison in 2015.  The team will work on the ongoing National Evaluation of Investing in Innovation.  To date, the Investing in Innovation program has awarded over 1.2 billion dollars to 143 grantees to fund the implementation and evaluation of a wide range of interventions aimed at improving student outcomes.  The NEi3, led by Abt Associates, has two broad goals: to provide technical assistance to ensure that independent evaluations funded by i3 grants are well designed and well implemented, and to summarize the evaluations’ individual and collective strength of evidence and findings.  Spybrook will be providing technical assistance to evaluators from the 2014 cohort of grantees