Her recent work includes directing evaluations of technology-supported innovations such as GLOBE and the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project, as well as studying the interaction between technology and education reform efforts in urban high schools for the Joyce Foundation (the latter work produced the recent volume The Connected School).

Currently, Dr. Means serves as a co-principal investigator for the national evaluation of the secondary school reform initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her earlier work included directing the National Study of Technology and Education Reform, which produced the volume, Technology and Education Reform: Views from Research and Practice, published by Jossey Bass. She has also published the edited volume Teaching Advanced Skills to At-Risk Students (with Carol Chelemer and Michael Knapp) and Comparative Studies of How People Think (written with Michael Cole).

Prior to joining SRI in 1988, Dr. Means directed the Applied Cognitive Research Group at the Human Resources Research Organization.

Education

Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 A.B., Psychology, with Distinction, Stanford University, 1971

Professional Experience

Co-Director of Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (1999-present) Vice President, Policy Division, SRI International (1994-1999) Member, Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1998-2001) Member, Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning (chaired by Ann L. Brown and John D. Bransford) of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1995-1997) Manager, Applied Cognitive Research Program, Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, VA (1985-1988)Current Projects at CTL