Drew Gitomer

Rutgers University

Rose and Nicholas DeMarzo Chair in Education

Drew Gitomer is the Rose & Nicholas DeMarzo Chair in Education at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education. He also served as the Senior Vice-President of Research and Development at the Educational Testing Service and is an Affiliated Faculty member with the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied and conducted research at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College. Gitomer served as co-editor of the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and also co-edited the AERA Handbook of Research on Teaching (5th Edition). He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and received the 2022 Palmer O. Johnson Award for outstanding article in an AERA journal. He is a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh and was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the LRDC. His research examines assessment and policy-related issues in teaching and teacher education and considers a range of constructs that are related to teaching quality, including the quality of classroom interactions, teacher knowledge, teacher beliefs, and student achievement. From work in student performance assessment and portfolios through studying measures of teaching quality such as observations, artifacts, and teacher knowledge, the scope of Gitomer's research has focused on the design and validation of assessments that support the improvement of instruction. His recent work includes a focus on research methods used to study the use of research evidence (URE).