Joy Lesnick
Email

joy.lesnick@vanderbilt.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellow
   
   
 

Areas of Interest

  • Relationship between implementation and impact of programs, projects, and policies on student performance.
  • Curriculum evaluation.
  • Differentiated instruction.
  • Urban education.

Keyword Interest

  • Program Evaluation.
  • Fidelity of Implementation.
  • Instructional Practices.
  • Research Methodology.

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Reanalyzing fidelity of implementation data from three pre-school literacy interventions to examine the strengths and weaknesses of alternative measures of implementation fidelity. Principal Investigator: David Cordray

Project:
Analyzing evaluation data from a longitudinal study of the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL), a professional development program for principals. Principal Investigator: Ellen Goldring

Project:
Analyzing interview data from a five-state study of the implementation of math standards in districts, schools, and classrooms. Principal Investigator: Laura Desimone

Former Experience

  • Research Assistant, Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), Philadelphia, PA (2001-2006).  (link:  www.cpre.org)
  • Research Consultant, Research for Action (RFA), Philadelphia, PA (2003-2006).  (link:  www.researchforaction.org)
  • Instructor, ED 667:  Introductory Statistics for Educational Research, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Summer 2006).
  • Instructor, ED 699:  Inquiry into Policy and Practice for Teach for America Master’s Degree Candidates, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Spring 2006).
  • Editor, Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education (link:  www.urbanedjournal.org) (2005-2006).
  • Co-founder of Penn GSE’s Education Policy Discussion Group (link:  http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~epdg/index.htm)
  • Provided professional development to mentor teachers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia as part of Penn GSE’s Tsunami Relief Effort (Summer, 2005).  (link:   http://www.gse.upenn.edu/tsunami)
  • Classroom Teacher, Fourth Grade (1999-2001).

Education

  • Ph.D. (2006):  Educational Policy, University of Pennsylvania.
  • M.Ed. (1999):  Early Childhood/Elementary Education, Rutgers University.
  • B.A.  (1998):  History, Rutgers University.