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Instructional Leadership Institutes
Ms. Overby is a Research and Evaluation Coordinator for UCLA SMP. She designs and implements program evaluations and analyzes student achievement data for SMP programs with a team of graduate student researchers. Her responsibilities include designing and conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis, developing and administering data collection instruments, and generating reports for SMP staff and faculty. She holds a masters and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan and served as a postdoctoral fellow on a grant investigating the formal and informal literacy practices of urban adolescents. Ms. Overby received her B.A. in psychology at Amherst College.
