Robert D. Shand

Robert D. Shand is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Leadership in the School of Education at American University and Fellow and Affiliated Researcher at CBCSE. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. A former high school economics and government teacher, his interests lie at the intersection of research, policy and practice. His current research focuses on teacher improvement through collaboration and professional development and how schools and teachers use data from economic evaluation and accountability systems to make decisions and improve over time. Recent work with colleagues at CBCSE has emphasized the unique opportunities and methodological challenges of evaluating complex partnership programs, including the university-school-community partnership Raising Educational Achievement Coalition of Harlem, and the comprehensive student support program, City Connects. He is co-PI of an Institute of Education Sciences-funded Research-Practice Partnership focused on evidence-based budgetary decision-making and an instructor in the IES-funded methods training program in cost analysis. He is a co-author of the third edition of Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis, and he has served as lead or co-author of publications in the American Journal of Evaluation, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and other major journals in the field.