Meet the Team

Dr. Jayce Warner is an education researcher and applied statistician with extensive experience assessing teacher development, student learning, and educational equity. Dr. Warner has published original research in numerous education research journals and conducted program evaluations for federal, state, and local education agencies.

At Gibson, Dr. Warner directs research and evaluation projects for state education agencies, school districts, universities, and charitable foundations. His work includes research and evaluation related to computer science education, reading initiatives, and advanced academics and other specialized programming. In this, he has supported organizations such as Fulton County Schools (GA), Kansas City Public Schools (MO), the National Science Foundation, the Texas Education Agency, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to Gibson, Dr. Warner led the research team for the educational division of the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin where he conducted multiple large scale studies examining gender and racial equity issues in secondary and postsecondary computing education. He also co-led efforts of an NSF-funded initiative to establish common metrics for measuring and monitoring equity in computing education across numerous U.S. states. In this work, he provided guidance and support to state education agencies in their efforts to collect, analyze, and report K-12 education data.

Dr. Warner earned his doctorate degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, which examined the relationship between early language learning and later literacy achievement, won the Graduate Student Award for Literacy Research Excellence from the American Educational Research Association special interest group on research in reading and literacy. His Master’s degree studies focused on teacher sensemaking in professional development settings, and he is a certified reviewer for the Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse.