Marisol Kevelson is an associate research scientist in the ETS Research Institute Policy Center. She earned a doctorate in Sociology and Education, with an emphasis on education policy, and master's degrees in public policy and administration and developmental psychology from Columbia University. With more than two decades of published work, her scholarship spans educational equity and opportunity gaps, teacher professional development, college access and postsecondary outcomes, social and emotional learning, and program evaluation. Her research agenda is focused on identifying and disseminating information on levers to improve equitable educational outcomes, in particular for students from historically marginalized populations lacking access to high-quality educational opportunities, with current work on equity-forward score reporting and data use and innovations in teacher professional development. She is actively working to build strategic partnerships to expand the equity-forward score reporting work to include teacher and school leader trainings as part of a larger critical data-driven decision-making research program. She also studies co-design and partnership development for program and product design. Her work is informed by prior experiences as a foundation program officer, intervention program manager, and program evaluator and consultant for clients including the NYC Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education.
Marisol was principal investigator on an AERDF research contract, an NSF Partnership Development grant (2405849), and an AERA research grant (NSF-DRL #1749275). Her research has been presented at venues ranging from the National Press Club to national conferences to ETS research forums.
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Last updated: 10/1/2025