Joan D. Pasley, Vice President of Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI), received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Cincinnati, a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from Xavier University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has had extensive coursework in educational evaluation and curriculum theory and analysis. In addition to teaching science at the high school level, Dr. Pasley served as a high school administrator in an urban school district where she gained experience in curriculum development, assessment, and instructional evaluation.

Dr. Pasley has been working at HRI since 1994 on a number of technical assistance, research, and evaluation projects, including directing the national core evaluation of NSF’s Local Systemic Change through Teacher Enhancement program, and the program evaluations of the Merck Institute for Science Education’s Consortium for Achievement in Mathematics and Science; the National Science Teacher Association’s New Science Teacher Academy; the University of Rochester’s Deepening Everyone’s Mathematics Content Knowledge project; and the American Physiological Society’s Frontiers in Physiology project. She served as PI for the Math and Science Partnership Knowledge Management and Dissemination project and as co-PI for the Operationalizing the Science and Engineering Practices project, which developed measures of how, and how often, science teachers implement the practices described in the Next Generation Science Standards. She also served as deputy director of the science strand for US Department of Education-funded Center on Instruction and provided technical assistance to the US Department of Education-funded Teacher Incentive Fund grants with a focus on STEM.