Marie L. Halverson

Marie L. Halverson Associate Department Director

Education and Child Development Studies

M.Ed., Instructional Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A., Anthropology and English, Kalamazoo College

Marie L. Halverson is Associate Director in the Education and Child Development Studies Department at NORC. She is responsible for overseeing various research projectes within the department, in addition to leading various development and planning initiatives within the department. Halverson's expertise includes education policy research, evaluation, and national studies of the K-12 school system. She has nearly 15 years experience working in survey and education research. Her primary area of expertise is elementary and secondary education policy, and she has particular expertise in the design and implementation of large-scale, longitudinal surveys in elementary, middle, and high-school schools.

Halverson has served as Project Director at NORC on several education studies including the Evaluation of the Growth Model Pilot Program for the U.S. Department of Education and and the Evaluation of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program for the National Science Foundation. She also was the Project Director for the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind and the Project Director for the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform.  

Halverson is a member of the American Educational Research Association.

Representative Projects

Gates Foundation National College Ready Survey. NORC at the University of Chicago is currently conducting the first-ever survey of school leaders nationwide designed to better understand efforts to boost college-readiness of our public school students. More

Evaluation of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. On behalf of NSF, NORC is conducting a study that will provide rigorous evidence of the impact of the GRFP on individuals’ educational decisions, career preparations, aspirations and progress, as well as professional productivity; and provide an understanding of how the program is implemented by universities and whether and how specific program policies could be adjusted to make the program more effective in meeting its goals.
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NSC Postsecondary Persistence Indicator Project-PPIP. NORC is performing sampling, weighting, and variance estimation for the National Student Clearinghouse's Postsecondary Persistence Indicator Project (PPIP), supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More

Growth Model Pilot Program Under No Child Left Behind (GMPP). The GMPP is an ambitious effort to improve how student achievement data are analyzed and used to assess the effectiveness of schools and school systems under the accountability provisions of the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind). More

Headlines

News Education Week: Study Flags Drawbacks in Growth Models for AYP More
Posted: 8.30.2011 9:38PM

Contact

Marie L. Halverson

(312) 759-4041