Meet the Team

Dr. David Osman directs evaluation projects and leads business development efforts at Gibson. 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.

Dr. Osman has 20 years of experience in education, including serving as a teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant. At Gibson, he leads teams of researchers in conducting evaluations for school districts and state education agencies around assessment systems, reading initiatives, educator professional development and pipelines, and school district management and operations. His work has supported organizations such as Fulton County Schools (GA), Garland Independent School District (TX), Kansas City Public Schools (MO), the Ohio Department of Higher Education, Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Rochester City School District (NY).

Dr. Osman is a leader in the field of educational evaluation and his work has been honored by the American Education Research Association (Division H). He is a graduate course lecturer in measurement and assessment the College of Education at Texas State University, Vice President of the Texas Evaluation Association, past chair of Educational Evaluation at the American Evaluation Association, and an active conference presenter. His work is published in journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Reading & Writing Quarterly, Exceptional Children, and Educational Psychology Review.

Before coming to Gibson, Dr. Osman directed a team of researchers in a large Texas school district in conducting large-scale program evaluations, supporting data use, and in building evaluation capacity. Prior to this, he served as a literacy consultant, providing district- and school-level guidance and analyzing student data. Dr. Osman started his career in education as a high school teacher.

Dr. Osman earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He possesses master’s degrees in Quantitative Methods (UT-Austin) and Curriculum and Instruction (Texas State), and is a certified Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse reviewer.