Joyce S. Kaser (EdD, American University, Wash­ington, D.C.), is a Senior Program Associate with WestEd. She is also President of Kaser and Associ­ates and is a Senior Research Associate with The Study Group. She is first author of Enhancing Pro­gram Quality in Science and Mathematics, also published by Corwin Press, in 1999. This book presents an approach, called profiling, to forma­tive evaluation of programs that support mathe­matics and science education. Over the past de­cade, Dr. Kaser has been one of the key developers of this methodology. She has also been an evalua­tor of state, urban, and local systemic change ef­forts, along with numerous national and statewide professional development programs. Currently, she is part of a team developing statewide criteria for professional development and serves as the coprincipal investigator of re­search for an online learning program. She assists a major professional devel­opment provider implement profiling as its approach to quality assurance. A former teacher and school administrator, Dr. Kaser is coauthor of a change management methodology for use in education, along with a risk analysis as­sessment process for large system interventions. This new book brings to­gether her work in professional development, evaluation, change manage­ ment, lifelong learning, and group leadership.
