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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 139-144

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From page 139...
... She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and she is also a member and past president of the American Physical Society. At the National Research Council, she served as a member of the Committee on Physics of the Universe, and she also served on the Federal Coordinating Committee on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
From page 140...
... He has a background in child development and education evaluation. At the National Research Council, he is also serving as a program officer for the Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments and the Committee on Understanding and Improving K-12 Engineering Education.
From page 141...
... He provides statewide leadership for education policy and programs, including development and implementation of the Utah core curriculum, core assessment, and statewide professional development of K-12 teachers. Previously, he served as president of the Council of State Science Supervisors, and he is currently a member of the steering committee for the revision of the 2009 Science Framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
From page 142...
... is the acting director of the Board on Science Education. She codirected the National Research Council study that produced Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, in 2007 and was a program officer on the study that produced America's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science.
From page 143...
... As both a physicist and author, his word concentrates on writing and teaching science to nonscientists. He has served as contributing editor for science for USA TODAY Weekend, as a regular contributor and science consultant for Smithsonian and Astronomy magazines, as a science commentator and member of the Science Advisory Board for National P ­ ublic Radio and for numerous Public Broadcasting Service productions, and as principal science consultant to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
From page 144...
... She has written 11 books and about 100 articles and book chapters dealing with evaluation, uses of research in policy making, cross-national comparisons of research influence, and media reporting of research. Her recent work includes Evaluation: Methods for Studying Programs and Policies, What to Do Until the Random Assigner Comes, and The Interface Between Evaluation and Public Policy, which was published internationally.


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