Beth Gamse, Ed.D.

Dr. Beth Gamse is an experienced education evaluation leader with broad research and education policy expertise. She has designed and conducted studies with designs that range from mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to random assignment to regression discontinuity to large‐scale descriptive survey‐based efforts of federal, state, and local educational initiatives. She has led studies for federal and state agencies, philanthropic, and nonprofit organizations; her studies have examined implementation and impact of initiatives to smooth college and career transitions, improve afterschool and expanded learning programming, implement policy changes in teacher preparation and evaluation, and launch research-practice partnerships. Her recent work includes consulting with nonprofits and foundations about evaluation strategy and design. She collaborates effectively with evaluation stakeholders to determine evaluation goals, refine study design and metrics as needed, and determine how to present results most usefully. She has an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.