Staff
Eric R. Banilower
Eric R. Banilower, Senior Research Associate at Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI), received a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Haverford College. He has also completed his doctoral coursework in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to teaching science at the high school level, Mr. Banilower worked with the California Scope, Sequence, and Coordination project developing curriculum and assessment materials for the California science reform project.
Mr. Banilower joined HRI in 1997 and has worked on a number of evaluation projects, including AAPT's Physics Teaching Resource Agents, and the Concord Consortium's International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition. He also assisted with data analysis and reporting for the 2000 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education and the Inside the Classroom study. He directed the evaluation of NSTA's WebWatchers, a program aimed at helping science educators learn how to find and evaluate Internet resources on the Web, link them to the National Science Education Standards, and use them effectively in K-12 science instruction. He supervised a study of the impact of the National Science Foundation's Local Systemic Change through Teacher Enhancement (LSC) program on student achievement and was a member of the team running the core evaluation of the LSC project.
Currently, Mr. Banilower is directing a longitudinal study of the impact of the Connected Mathematics curriculum on student achievement. He also supervises the evaluation of Pennsylvania's Science: It's Elementary initiative, aimed at improving elementary school science instruction throughout the state. He is the project coordinator for teacher and counselor questionnaire development for "High School Longitudinal Study," funded by the US Department of Education. In addition, he has assisted on the evaluation design, instrument development, and data analysis for a number of research and evaluation projects at HRI.