Ariel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education. She leads and contributes to projects related to educational effectiveness, improvement, and equity.
Past and current research spans pre-school, primary and secondary education settings, and considers education at a variety of levels (system, school, class, and individual/family). Methodologically, Ariel has expertise in advanced statistical methods and mixed methods, and an interest in appropriately contextualised approaches to evaluation.
Ariel completed her DPhil in the Oxford University Department of Education. She holds Qualified Teacher Status in the UK, and prior to becoming a researcher she was a secondary mathematics teacher in the USA since 2006. She is also a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, with a Masters in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Hunter College, City University of New York.