Susan Lyons, Ph.D.

Associate, National Center for The Improvement of Educational Assessment

Susan Lyons, Ph.D. is an associate with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. Dr. Lyons’ work currently centers on promoting and evaluating the quality of assessments and accountability systems. Susan is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project where she leads on the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system. In addition to her work at the Center for Assessment, Dr. Lyons currently holds a part-time faculty appointment at Boston College where she teaches an advanced, doctoral-level statistics course. Dr. Lyons actively publishes her work and frequently presents at local and national professional conferences.