Dr. David Osman has 15 years of experience in education, including serving as a teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant. Being an applied educational researcher has afforded him the opportunity to explore a variety of topics at Gibson and he is most interested in exploring problems which result in positive changes in students’ lives – especially students who have been marginalized.
Before coming to Gibson, Dr. Osman was the Director of Research and Evaluation in Round Rock Independent School District, where he directed a team of evaluators in conducting large-scale program evaluations, supporting educators’ data use, and in building stakeholders’ evaluation capacity. Prior to this, Dr. Osman worked at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk where he served as a literacy consultant for public school districts across Texas, providing district- and school-level guidance and analyzing literacy data.
Dr. Osman earned his doctorate degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Human Development, Culture, and Learning Sciences. His dissertation focused on the relationship between teachers’ motivational and emotional experiences during professional development and implementation. He also possesses master’s degrees in Quantitative Methods (from UT-Austin) and Curriculum and Instruction (from Texas State-San Marcos). His research has been published in journals such as Teachers and Teacher Education, Educational Psychology Review, Exceptional Children, and The Journal of Social Studies Research. He is an active conference presenter at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the American Education Research Association (AERA), and a leader in the PreK-12 Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) for AEA.