Finbarr Sloane

Finbarr Sloane came to the National Science Foundation in the fall of 2000, on leave from Hewitt Associates LLC, where he was head of employee research. He now holds a permanent position at the NSF, serving as program manager for the Interagency Education Research Initiative. In addition to this work Sloane also assumes the role of program director in the Research on Learning and Education program housed in REC. His responsibility there includes oversight of the million international study of mathematics and science currently being conducted in 47 countries. The work includes survey research as well as video renditions of teaching across the world. He has also sponsored and has oversight over promising technology solutions to teaching and learning in mathematics and science. He helped develop the Hierarchical Linear Modeling System while at the University of Chicago, and took on the role of vice principal of the John Dewey University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Three years later he became a pilot teacher and curriculum developer for the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. Later Sloane transitioned to industry, building the largest privately held employee research group in the country. In his role at Hewitt Associates he developed models of employee engagement, and a ranking system that supports the study of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in the US. He has served as associate editor on a number of Education journals including: Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Educational Theory, and the American Journal of Education. During this six-year period there he served on a number of EHR review panels, and continued to publish his own work in mathematics and statistics education. Sloane completed his BA in mathematics and sociology at University College Cork, and completed his MBA at the University of Chicago.