Robin Clausen, PhD

Experience

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  UNESCO

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2005

  Consultant

  This project produced a pilot database for a global warehouse of information on secondary education reform modeled on the World Data on Education project (http://www.ibe.unesco.org). • Authored a report that included recommendations about creating a data warehouse on secondary education reform policies.• Conducted archival research of a large body of national education policies and laws.• Designed and developed a pilot database designed to organize data on secondary education reform. Show less

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  Penn State University

  Aug 2006 - Sept 2012

  Classrooms for the Future (CFF) is a program that former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell sponsored in 2006 that provided over $200 million in technology resources and training to Pennsylvania classrooms. We also evaluated the Enhancing Education through Technology program in Pennsylvania. Title IID of ESEA is a federal program that allocated grants to states for the development of educational technology resources. • Acted as manager for confidential data collection activities of over 750,000 student surveys, 62,000 teacher surveys, 7200 observations of classroom practice, and 350 administrator interviews. • Co-authored twelve evaluation reports about a school reform initiative.• Conducted in depth literature reviews and case studies about the policy implications of the program on school districts.• Conducted outreach to 900 schools and the PA Department of Education.• Contributed to funded proposals that provided an average project budget of $160,000 for six years.• Designed and coordinated the development of a complex data management system. • Effective professional development facilitator of in-person and webinar workshops.• Experienced at aligning research studies with Institutional Review Board requirements.• Experienced at creating and refining data collection instruments.• Managed six project proposals, project budgets, and work breakdown structures to ensure timely deliverables. Show less The Urban Teaching Collaborative at Isaac Sheppard Elementary (School District of Philadelphia) embeds student teachers in an urban school in a high poverty and ethnically diverse community. Designed using a systemic change model, this partnership integrated a professional development school, an after school program, and a family-based technology initiative.• Co-designed a School District of Philadelphia/ Penn State University partnership. • Authored four funded research and program grant proposals.• Coordinated the program at Isaac Sheppard Elementary (Northeast, Philadelphia). • Implemented a $62,500 annual budget and authored expenditure reports to funding agencies. Show less

  • Co-Director / Co-PI - Classrooms for the Future Evaluation

    May 2007 - Sept 2012

  • Urban Teaching Collaborative, College of Education

    Aug 2006 - May 2007
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  Montana State University-Bozeman

  Nov 2015 - Dec 2016

  Project Manager

  My role as project manager of the HELPS Lab (Department of Political Sciences) involved managing the day-to-day operations of a research laboratory that specializes in data collection about human subjects: primarily surveys, interviews, and focus groups. The duties of the position include.- Collaborating with others in the following management activities: invoicing, account resolution, financial reports, and relationships with vendors.- Coordinated data collection in the fields of agricultural extension, business, health and human development, and political science.- Monthly budget activities including processing monthly invoices for clients, approving time on task for each employee, monitoring accounts receivable, and accounts payable tracking.- Primary research, Coordinated large scale online and mail surveys, conducted focus groups, and participated in six interview studies. Managed data for deliverables for clients. Provided data analysis solutions customizable for each dataset.- Provided cost estimates for HELPS lab services. Show less

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  Montana Office of Public Instruction

  Dec 2016 - now

  The Montana SLDS is a National Center for Education Statistics sponsored program (2009-2025) which focuses on the management and reporting of state data (e.g., enrollment, assessment, and employee data): https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=3362. • Lead research and dissemination tasks about school level poverty measures and workforce outcomes.• Implementation of research agenda for the OPI including tasks related to the Education and the Workforce Data Governing Board (HB 949).• Coordination of research related datasets for posting to the Open Science Framework• Monitoring of IT tasks such as migration of SLDS data into a data lake (cloud environment), in-tegration of platforms with Snowflake, and translation of SLDS online portal into Power School Unified Insights platform.• Related administrative tasks such as budget modification, project plan changes, drawdowns, and proposal writing. Show less Grant abstract can be found at: https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=4531.  Co-authored research protocol funded by the National Center for Education Research (IES). Implemented a mixed methods protocol about a diagnostic tool (dropout prevention). Independently completed interview and survey data collection (RQ 2: Mixed Methods). Managed work of subcontractors including analysis of archival data from the Montana SLDSusing a difference in difference methodology to analyze efficiencies of the tool and outcomes. Completed reporting for RQ 2. This technical report is combined with an analysis of student outcomes for completion of the grant requirements. Articles are in review in policy related publications, including an accepted article by the American School Board Journal. Show less • 2019 Recipient, Governor’s Award for Excellence in Performance.• Duties include independent research projects (internal and external), the coordination of data requests (public right to know) and research requests, support for SLDS public interface (GEMS: https://gems.opi.mt.gov), program outreach, conference planning, and SLDS marketing.• The Montana SLDS received a supplemental grant ($250,000) to investigate alternative poverty measures. Independently completed articles on three levels of analysis (state, locale, and within communities by locale) using Montana data for eight alternative poverty measures. Fulfilled grant requirements. Three articles have been published.• Assisted with federal reporting activities including Annual Performance Review, SLDS survey, and project plans.• Completed longitudinal research about student achievement (Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments) and Native student achievement and voice.• Contract liaison to eleven contracts. Activities included processing Request for Non-Employee Services materials (sourcing) and contractor invoices.• Firm believer in public right to know and transparency of data. Processed 464 data requests using SQL and SPSS to manage complex state education data, enabling public and researcher access to data. Show less

  • Montana SLDS Program Manager

    Jul 2024 - now

  • Principal Investigator

    Jul 2021 - now

  • SLDS Research Analyst / Liaison

    Dec 2016 - Jun 2024