Ashley Iveland is a Senior Research Associate with Science and Engineering Education at WestEd. She currently serves as the principal investigator (PI) and co-PI on various large-scale Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research and development projects to develop and study professional learning programs for teachers in grades 3 through 8.
Iveland work aims to support teachers in diverse educational contexts to implement standards-aligned instruction that fosters students’ agency through contextualized and equity-oriented problem-solving and engineering design. Her research interests lie at the nexus of science, engineering, and environmental education and with an eye towards drawing on the creativity, assets, and affordances of all students.
She has studied the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) since their inception, developed and studied the efficacy of various STEM curricula, explored conceptions of engineering design and how creative problem-solving can be assessed, and also examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-8 science instruction nationally.
Iveland received a Ph.D. in Science Education and a secondary science teaching credential from the University of California at Santa Barbara.