Ariel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education. She has led and contributed to numerous projects related to educational effectiveness, improvement, and equity. Her research spans pre-school, primary, and secondary education settings, and considers education at a variety of levels (system, school, class, and individual/family).
Methodologically, she has expertise in advanced statistical and mixed methods, the analysis of large, complex and longitudinal datasets including administrative and international large-scale assessment data, and appropriately contextualised approaches to educational evaluation. Ariel is Co-Editor of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Associate Editor of Studies in Educational Evaluation, and an editorial board member of Research Papers in Education.
Ariel completed her DPhil in the University of Oxford 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.
