Adam Dunn specializes in evaluations in early childhood, K–12 education, and family support. His expertise includes implementation and process evaluation, systematic evidence reviews, and providing technical assistance.
Dunn has conducted systematic reviews for the Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse since 2013 and served as the lead for WWC quality assurance activities. He currently serves as the deputy project director for the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review, a systematic review for the Department of Health and Human Services that identifies evidence-based early childhood home visiting models.
In past work, he led an implementation evaluation of strategies for early childhood family-school engagement in low-income communities for the Heising-Simons Foundation. He also led evaluation technical assistance for a foundation initiative to support employment and training programs for The James Irvine Foundation, and to help grantees and the foundation build and use evidence to inform decisions and program improvement in K-12 English Language Arts for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dunn, who joined Mathematica in 2011, holds an M.P.P. in public policy analysis from the University of California, Berkeley.
The brief summarizes key implementation takeaways from studies of two automated writing feedback tools—Ecree and MI Write—in grade 7–11 English language arts classrooms during the 2021–2022 school year.
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