Dr. Barbara Means is co-director of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International, an independent nonprofit research organization based in Menlo Park, CA. Dr. Means studies innovative educational strategies designed to foster students’ learning of advanced skills. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Means has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) to explore and articulate new opportunities for learning research and evaluation enabled by the use of digital learning systems. Her work for OET has included managing the development of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan and lead authorship of the report Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World. For the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Means has led evaluations of major learning software intiatives, including the Next Generation Learning Challenge and Next Generation Courseware grants. Dr. Means served on the National Research Council committees producing the Successful K-12 STEM Education and Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education reports and as a member of the joint National Academy of Engineering/NRC committee on Integrated STEM Education. Earlier NRC activities included serving on the Board on Testing and Assessment and as a member of the committee that produced the volume How People Learn. Her published works include the edited volumes Evaluating Educational Technology, Technology and Education Reform, and Teaching Advanced Skills to At-Risk Students and the jointly authored volumes Learning Online, The Connected School, and Comparative Studies of How People Think. Dr. Means earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.Barbara Means is an educational psychologist whose research focuses on ways in which technology can support students’ learning of advanced skills and the revitalization of classrooms and schools. She is regarded as a leader in defining issues and approaches for evaluating the implementation and efficacy of technology-supported educational innovations. Currently, she leads SRI’s research and assistance efforts in support of National Technology Activities within the U.S. Department of Education. She is also directing SRI’s documentation of the implementation of educational technology in schools participating in the national randomized field trials evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Technology Innovations for the Institute of Education Sciences. Her published works include the edited volumes Evaluating Educational Technology, Technology and Education Reform, and Teaching Advanced Skills to At-Risk Students as well as the jointly authored volumes Using Technology Evaluation to Advance Student Learning, The Connected School, and Comparative Studies of How People Think. Dr. Means earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.