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Alexandra Resch
Senior Researcher
Alexandra Resch is a senior researcher in the education area whose research interests lie in teacher evaluation, value-added methods, and nonexperimental impact evaluation methodology. She also provides technical assistance on these topics.
Since joining Mathematica in 2008, Resch has contributed to many of Mathematica’s notable education studies. On the evaluation of Knowledge Is Power Program schools, she led the experimental lottery-based design used for evaluating the program impacts. On Mathematica’s Impact Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), she provides technical assistance to TIF evaluation grantees on the design and implementation of performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems. Additional projects include evaluating analytic and technical assistance and development needs of the U.S. Department of Education’s Regional Educational Laboratories and developing training materials and reports to meet these needs.
Resch’s work on value-added methodology includes several high profile projects. She serves as project director for the development of a new teacher and principal evaluation system to support Charleston (SC) County School District’s TIF grant, an effort that includes developing value-added measures of teacher and principal effectiveness. Resch is also deputy project director on two value-added projects for the Washington, D.C., public schools. She co-leads a project providing technical assistance to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education of D.C. and charter local education agencies on value-added models implemented as part of the district’s Race to the Top grant. She also has led the research track investigating changes to the value-added models for schools and teachers in Washington, D.C., for use with high-stakes teacher assessment systems.
She has been published in the BE Press Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and National Tax Journal. Resch holds a Ph.D. in public policy and economics from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the American Economic Association, Association for Education Finance and Policy, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Teacher evaluation
- Value-added methodology
- Analytical technical assistance and development
- Evaluation methodology
- Analytical Technical Assistance and Development, National Center for Education Evaluation
- Multi-Dimensional Educator Evaluation Framework and Educator Effectiveness Rating System, Charleston County School District
- Evaluation of Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Schools
- Value-Added Assessment System for Schools and Teachers in the District of Columbia
- Impact Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund
- Advisory role, Jack Kent Cook Foundation
- Member, American Economic Association
- Member, Association for Education Finance and Policy
- Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management