Sarah Gripshover
Director Of Research at PERTS
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Gripshover is a research and product leader who blends behavioral science, rigorous evaluation, and hands-on data engineering to build evidence-based educational technology used by thousands of U.S. educators and hundreds of thousands of students. As Director of Research at PERTS she oversees mixed-methods evaluations, psychometric validation, and the integration of GenAI and machine learning into educator-facing products, recently securing over $1.1M from the Gates Foundation to fund these efforts. She manages cross-functional teams through full product cycles, sets code and research quality standards for R, Python, and SQL work, and designed the research infrastructure that supported PERTS’ transition to an independent nonprofit. A Stanford Ph.D. in Psychology with publications in leading behavioral science journals, she pairs academic rigor with practical tools like field guides and data dashboards to help schools turn survey data into improved outcomes. Unusually for a researcher, she combines large-scale randomized trial experience with machine-learning product delivery—building recommendation engines and virtual coaches aimed at classroom practice.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Arts, Linguistics, Bachelor's of Arts, Linguistics at University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
visualizations5
python5
visualization5
data-visualization4
data-analysis4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
PERTS/gymnast
Nov 2015 - Sep 2021
Collection of useful functions for data analysis and visualization.
Contributions:142 commits, 38 PRs, 92 pushes in 5 years 10 months
data-analysispythonvisualizationsdata-visualizationvisualization
sarahgripshover/SG-analysis
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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