The Impact Evaluation Lab is founded and directed by Dr. Andy Zhang at The University of Alabama. The Lab is a research and training community dedicated to producing rigorous, policy-relevant evidence on how education policies, programs, and institutions shape the decisions and outcomes of students, families, educators, schools, and education systems.
The Impact Evaluation Lab is founded and directed by Dr. Andy Zhang at The University of Alabama. The Lab is a research and training community dedicated to producing rigorous, policy-relevant evidence on how education policies, programs, and institutions shape the decisions and outcomes of students, families, educators, schools, and education systems.
Our work is driven by substantive questions in education policy and draws on experiments, quasi-experimental methods, large-scale data, and machine learning. The Lab has a strong international and comparative focus, with current and emerging research in East Asia and Latin America.
Our work is driven by substantive questions in education policy and draws on experiments, quasi-experimental methods, large-scale data, and machine learning. The Lab has a strong international and comparative focus, with current and emerging research in East Asia and Latin America.
The Lab also supports broader professional development through opportunities to present research, prepare conference submissions and manuscripts, participate in project and grant development, engage with scholars across programs and disciplines, and build the skills and confidence needed to initiate and lead research of their own.
The Lab also supports broader professional development through opportunities to present research, prepare conference submissions and manuscripts, participate in project and grant development, engage with scholars across programs and disciplines, and build the skills and confidence needed to initiate and lead research of their own.