Scott Holcomb

Scott Holcomb is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Education at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on educational leadership, rater-mediated assessment, inter-rater reliability, and teacher evaluation. Prior to his postdoctoral role, he spent over a decade as an elementary school teacher and math/literacy interventionist in North and South Carolina public schools.

Education: Ph.D. (specific field not stated).

Research Interests:

• Educational policy and systems
• Assessment validity/reliability (large-scale)
• Teacher preparation and evaluation
• Elementary/early childhood education
• Inter-rater agreement methodologies

Grants: Co-Investigator on the 2022-2025 grant Teacher Attrition, Health, and Well-Being: Exploring the Mismatch Between Teacher Preparation and District Realities in the Midst of COVID-19, funded by UNC Chapel Hill.

Professional Activities: Served as Co-Chair of the Graduate Student Issues Committee (NCME, 2020-2022) and Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Educational and Policy Research (2019-2022).