Christina Clark Tuttle
Senior Researcher
Christina Clark Tuttle is a senior researcher specializing in the design and implementation of rigorous impact evaluations of educational interventions, particularly involving random assignment.
Tuttle has several years of experience evaluating charter schools and other school choice initiatives. She served as deputy project director of the national evaluation of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools. In addition, she is currently the project director of an evaluation of the impacts of the KIPP network of charter schools on student outcomes at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, involving random assignment. This study, funded by an Investing in Innovation (i3) scale-up grant from the U.S. Department of Education, also includes an implementation analysis related to leadership development programs at KIPP. For the U.S. Department of Education, Tuttle serves as the topic area expert on charter schools for the national evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants, and was deputy project director of a recent nationwide random assignment evaluation of charter schools.
Tuttle also conducts key reviews of research: she is deputy principal investigator for the What Works Clearinghouse, conducting systematic reviews of the research literature and characterizing the effectiveness of a variety of educational interventions, and she reviews studies conducted by the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories. Tuttle is published in the Economics of Education Review and holds an M.P.P. in education and family policy from Georgetown University.
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Staff Profile
- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Education evaluations
- Large, complex, multi-site evaluations
- Random assignment
- Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- Member, American Evaluation Association
- Member, Association for Education Finance and Policy