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Jake Bartolone is a Senior Research Scientist in the Education and Child Development Studies department, and has experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, report writing, and survey management. Bartolone currently serves as Project Director and Principal Investigator for the Faculty Climate Qualitative Assessment of the science faculty at two major Midwestern research universities, Associate Project Director for NORC’s contract to provide analytical support to the Federal TRIO programs, and task leader for the Impact Study of the GRF Program on Graduate Institutions task as part of the Graduate Research Fellowship Project (GRFP).
In addition to project oversight and management, Bartolone’s quantitative analytical experience has included coordinating a large number of quick-turnaround analysis tasks and reports, including Government Performance and Results Act-mandated measures of program performance and Higher Education Opportunity Act-mandated reports and merging client data sets across years, and with outside data sources, to create and maintain a longitudinal database. His qualitative analytical project work includes conducting site visits, focus groups, and in-depth interviews with students, faculty members, university staff and administrators, and federal program officers, and analyzing the results for governmental and non-governmental clients including the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and large research universities. Additionally, he has recently held project management responsibilities for two of NORC’s most complex data collection efforts, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979 cohort) and the Survey of Small Business Finance, with responsibilities focused on data collection, cleaning, and dissemination.
Outside of NORC, Bartolone has worked with the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum on a number of evaluation projects, including evaluations of educational programs, teacher professional development programs, and museum exhibits.