Robin Jacob
Location
Institute for Social Research
Perry Room 2338
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Doctoral advising
This faculty member does not mentor Marsal School doctoral students.
Robin Jacob is a research professor at the Survey Research Center at Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and a faculty co-director of the Youth Policy Lab.
She has almost 25 years of experience conducting randomized trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of social interventions in a variety of different contexts. Her evaluations have targeted a wide range of outcomes including literacy, math, and social-emotional competencies, executive functioning skills, and health related outcomes, and have included evaluations of federal initiatives, programs developed by nonprofit organizations, as well as those developed by for-profit service providers. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and numerous private foundations. She received a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.
Selected Publications
"The Potential for School-Based Interventions that Target Executive Function to Improve Academic Achievement: A Review."
Jacob, Robin T. and Parkinson, Julia (2015). Review of Educational Research, 85(4), 512-552.
"Exploring the Causal Impact of the McREL Balanced Leadership Program on Leadership, Principal Efficacy, Instructional Climate, Educator Turnover, and Student Achievement."
Jacob, Robin T.; Goddard, Roger; Kim, Minjung; Miller, Robert and Goddard, Yvonne (2015). Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 37(3), 314-332.
"Social-Emotional Learning is Essential to Classroom Management."
Jones, Stephanie M.; Bailey, Rebecca and Jacob, Robin T. (2014). Phi Delta Kappan, 96(2), 19-24.
"Assessing the use of Aggregate Data in the Evaluation of School-Based Interventions: Implications for Evaluation Research and State Policy regarding Public-use Data."
Jacob, Robin T.; Goddard, Roger D. and Kim, Eun S. (2014). Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(1), 44-66.
"Professional Development Research: Consensus, Crossroads, and Challenges."
Hill, Heather C.; Beisiegel, Mary and Jacob, Robin T. (2013). Educational Researcher, 42(9), 476-487.
"Designing and Analyzing Studies that Randomize Schools to Estimate Intervention Effects on Student Academic Outcomes without Classroom-Level Information."
Zhu, Pei; Jacob, Robin T.; Bloom, Howard and Xu, Zeyu (2012). Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 34(1), 45-68.
" An Experiment to Test the Feasibility and Quality of a Web-Based Questionnaire of Teachers."
Jacob, Robin T. (2011). Evaluation Review, 35(1), 40-70.
"New Empirical Evidence for the Design of Group Randomized Trials in Education."
Jacob, Robin T.; Zhu, P. and Bloom, H. (2010). Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 3(2), 157-198.
"Using Instructional Logs to Identify Quality in Educational Settings."
Rowan, Brian; Jacob, Robin T. and Corentti, R. (2009). 13. In Yohalem, Nicole; Granger, Robert C. and Pittman, Karen J. (Ed.), Defining and Measuring Quality in Youth Programs and Classrooms. Wiley: San Francisco, Calif.