Associate Dean for Research
Associate Professor
School of Education, Room 124
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-735-5275
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: barry.sloane@colorado.edu

Barry Sloane received his PhD in Education from the Measurement, Evaluation and Statistical Analysis Program at the University of Chicago with special emphasis in mathematics education. He has taught at University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and Arizona State University. Prior to coming to Colorado –Boulder he worked in industry as a research statistician and in US government where he was a program director at the National Science Foundation. At the NSF he was affiliated with the Research on Learning in Education (ROLE) program and was program manager for the Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI) and the TIMSS 2000 study.

His research focuses on the learning of mathematics, behavioral methodology and the modeling of student mathematical development in multilevel contexts. Most recently, his research has appeared in the Educational Researcher, Reading Research Quarterly, and Theory into Practice. He is currently the chair of the Hierarchical Linear Modeling SIG of AERA. He presented the 2006 keynote address at the NCTM research pre-session entitled: Unifying mathematics education research: Quantifying qualitative insight. He is presently serving as a methodological consultant in support of the World Bank’s educational efforts in South Africa with specific attention to “Closing the Skills and Technology Gaps in South Africa.”

His research has been funded by the Ball Foundation, the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois, the Government of Ireland, the Joyce Foundation, the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

Education:
PhD Education, University of Chicago, Chicago 2003
MBA Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Lake Forest 1998
MA Education, California State University, Chico 1982
Graduate Diploma Education, The National University of Ireland, St. Partick's College of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland 1981
Graduate Diploma Religious Studies, The National University of Ireland, St. Partick's College of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland 1981
BA Mathematics and Sociology, The National University of Ireland, University Colege Cork, Ireland 1980