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Fran Stancavage

Managing Researcher

Fran Stancavage is a managing researcher at the John C. Flanagan Research Center at AIR in San Mateo, California, where her career spans 35 years of work in education and health. Most recently her interests have centered on validity issues in educational assessment, the implementation of large scale randomized field experiments, and program evaluation. Since 1995, Stancavage has directed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Validity Studies project, which assists the National Center for Education Statistics in maintaining high standards of validity for the NAEP assessment. The project has published numerous research studies and white papers and maintains an expert panel that meets three times a year. During this time, Stancavage has been co-principal investigator on two major NVS studies: a 2007 validity study of the NAEP mathematics assessment at grades 4 and 8 and a 2009 study of the Sensitivity of NAEP to the Effects of Reform-Based Teaching and Learning in Middle School Mathematics. Stancavage has also contributed to a number of other NVS studies and white papers.

Stancavage also currently serves as director of implementation for a five-year, eight-district impact study for the Institute of Education Sciences that is investigating how a comprehensive teacher and leader evaluation system influences teacher instructional practice, principal leadership, and student achievement. In addition, she is principal investigator for the independent evaluation of The College Board’s i3-grant funded effort to develop, pilot, and evaluate new technology-enabled student- and classroom-level feedback reports for AP biology.

Related Work

16 Oct 2017
Report

Identifying Text-Task-Reader Interactions Related to Item and Block Difficulty in the National Assessment for Educational Progress Reading Assessment

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

TIMSS, PISA, and NAEP: What to Know Before Digging into the Results

2 Feb 2016
Video

Making Research Relevant: Common Core and NAEP Alignment

1 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Why Did NAEP Scores Drop?

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Fran Stancavage

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Education
NAEP
Teacher Preparation and Performance

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M.A., Sociology, California State University, San Jose; B.A., Sociology, Vassar College

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