Allison Atteberry, a research assistant professor of education policy at the University of Virginia, will give a lecture titled “The Incredible Instability of Teacher Assignments Within Schools: Exploring Patterns and Impacts” at noon Friday, Dec. 5, on the University of Arkansas campus.

The lecture is part of the series sponsored by the Department of Education Reform. It starts at noon in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building, and RSVP is requested for a light lunch. RSVP online by 1 p.m. Dec. 3.

Atteberry recently completed a two-year Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellowship at EdPolicyWorks: Center of Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness in Virginia’s Curry School of Education, and she stayed on in order to continue work on research in collaboration with James Wyckoff, a professor and director of EdPolicyWorks.

In 2011, Atteberry completed her doctorate at the Stanford School of Education in Policy Analysis, which focused on policy and program evaluation using a causal methods framework. Her academic interests center on policies and interventions that are intended to help provide effective teachers to the students who need them most. This has led to a focus on the identification, selection, development and retention of teachers who have positive impacts on student achievement. Specific topics include teacher preparation, high quality professional development, mentoring and peer collaboration, efforts to use measures of effectiveness formatively to improve practice, policies that target district responses to teachers and schools based on measures of effectiveness, and incentives for the strongest teachers to work with the most disadvantaged populations.