Lauren Amos
Human Services

Lauren Banks Amos

Principal Researcher

Dr. Amos has nearly 25 years of experience in program evaluation, technical assistance and design-based research supporting philanthropic, federal, state, and local education agency efforts to improve outcomes for children and youth in the public education, juvenile justice, and child welfare systems.

Her experience includes helping such clients as the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and New York City Public Schools monitor, measure, and maximize the influence and impact of their investments in human capital such as needs-based school funding models, collective impact for community-wide transformation, alternatives to exclusionary school discipline, STEM talent development, pay-for-performance initiatives, and online communities of practice.

Since joining Mathematica in 2019, her work has varied widely such as leading a four-year study on the adoption and adaption of middle school math curricula in four large school districts for the Analysis of Middle School Math Systems project  and directing an internally-facing technical assistance center that served all U.S. Department of Health and Human Service offices and staff to strengthen their capacity to use data and research to improve health and well-being outcomes.  Her current work includes serving as the Principal Investigator for the Informing Evidence-Building Capacity Among State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Governments within a National Secure Data Service project funded by the National Science Foundation. She also serves as the Data Core Research Lead for the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Coordination Center (C3) funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Amos is the proud parent of a graduate of Washington DC public schools and public charter schools. She represents Mathematica on the DC Education Research Collaborative that supports the public education community in the nation’s capital. She has a background in information technology consulting, instructional design, educational software development, and database development and has taught middle school computer science. Dr. Amos has a Ph.D. in learning sciences from Northwestern University and a B.A. in public policy studies and English from Duke University.

Expertise
  • Education program and policy analysis
  • Design research
  • Program evaluation
  • Technical assistance
  • Evaluation technical assistance
  • UI/UX
  • Data visualization
  • Measure development
  • Evidence-based interventions
Focus Area Topics
  • Human Services
  • Education
  • College and Career Readiness
  • Effective Data Use
  • Literacy and Numeracy
  • Teacher and Principal Effectiveness
  • STEM
  • Juvenile Justice

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