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Jill Walston

Principal Researcher

Jill Walston is a principal researcher at the American Institutes for Research. Dr. Walston leads quantitative research and technical assistance projects mainly for the Midwest and the Southwest Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) programs, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Dr. Walston serves as the project director for AIR’s subcontract on the REL Northeast and Islands. Her areas of methodological expertise are quantitative research design and analysis, survey research, questionnaire development, assessment, and qualitative research methods. Broad content experience and expertise includes early childhood education, educator effectiveness and evaluation, competency-based education, and college and career readiness.

Dr. Walston worked for 15 years supporting the National Center for Education Statistic’s early childhood longitudinal studies—primarily the ECLS-K and the ECLS-K:11 and has authored several NCES reports and presentations using the ECLS-K data. She has taught kindergarten and first grade, and has published two articles in peer-reviewed journals about computer-based data collection—one on conducting computer-assisted focus groups and another on web-based questionnaire design.

Related Work

30 Jun 2017
In the Field

Minnesota Survey Design and Analysis Support

1 Dec 2016
Report

Strategies for Estimating Teacher Supply and Demand Using Student and Teacher Data

29 Jun 2016
Report

Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education: The Relationship Between Competency-Based Education Practices and Students’ Learning Skills, Behaviors, and Dispositions

17 Dec 2013
Blog Post

The New First Grade: Kindergarten

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Jill Walston

Areas of Expertise

College and Career Readiness
Teacher Preparation and Performance

Education

M.A. and Ph.D., Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland-College Park; B.S. Early Childhood Education, University of Maryland-College Park

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