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Sherri Lauver joined the Warner School in 2005 as the evaluation specialist for the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform. She teaches courses on program evaluation and other research methods, and will organize and direct a new certification program on program evaluation as part of the Kauffman Foundation-funded initiative on educational entrepreneurship. She also serves as the evaluator on numerous grant and contract projects.
Prior to her appointment at the Warner Center, Lauver served as a Research Associate and Project Officer for the Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Educational Evaluation, at the U.S. Department of Education, where she oversaw a $5 million national study of supplemental literacy interventions for struggling ninth grade readers. At the University of Pennsylvania, Lauver served as a project manager and co-Principal Investigator on a grant funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation to evaluate the benefits of extended-day programming for at-risk middle school youth using a mixed-method evaluation design. Other experiences include serving as a research coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania and as administrator for an after-school program.
Lauver has co-authored articles on evaluation projects that appear in such journals as New Directions for Youth Development, Prevention Researcher, The School Administrator, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Education Finance, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and The Evaluation Exchange. She has consulted with the Harvard Family Research Project, the Campbell Collaboration, the University of Rochester Medical Center, and the Haverford School.
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