Rebecca S. Newman-Gonchar
Dr. Newman-Gonchar manages the Math Strand for the Center on Instruction
and serves as a co–principal investigator for a randomized field trial of
professional development in vocabulary, funded by the U.S. Department of
Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). She has worked extensively on
developing observation systems to assess math and reading instruction for four
major IES-funded studies and has contributed to several practice guides and
intervention reports for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) in the areas of
math, reading, response to intervention, and English language learners. She is
also certified to complete experimental and single-case design reviews for the
WWC. She has experience in project management, study design and implementation,
and quantitative and qualitative analysis.