Susanne N. James-Burdumy

Associate Director of Research

Susanne James-Burdumy, an associate director of research, is an expert in the design and conduct of rigorous evaluations of educational programs and interventions.

James-Burdumy currently directs two random assignment studies for the U.S. Department of Education. The first is an evaluation of mandatory-random student drug testing programs and the second is an evaluation of reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students. She also directs a random assignment study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate Playworks, a program that provides elementary school students with opportunities for physical activity and play during the school day. She is also the principal investigator of the adolescent literacy topic area of the What Works Clearinghouse.

In past work, she was deputy director of the first large national random assignment study of after-school programs and director of an evaluation of high school reform efforts in Boston Public Schools.

James-Burdumy has published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Urban Health, and Journal of Labor Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University.

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Design and conduct rigorous evaluations of educational programs and interventions

Evaluation of Playworks Program
What Works Clearinghouse
National Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions

Invited presentation, REL Directors’ Meeting, Washington, DC (July 2009)
Invited presentation, Institute of Education Sciences Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC (June 2009)
Presidential-invited session presentation, American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA (April 2009)
Member, American Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association

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