Dr. Archbald is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy and Coordinator of two of the School’s largest graduate programs – The M.Ed. in School Leadership and the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. These graduate programs enroll school, district, and higher education teachers and administrators. Archbald has taught courses in education policy, school law, curriculum design and evaluation, quantitative research, management applications of research, organizational communications, and data-based decision making.

Dr. Archbald has been a principal investigator for several national research studies and projects. As a researcher for the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (University of Wisconsin, 1985-90), Archbald was a co-Principal Investigator on a five year study of curriculum and testing policies. In 1988, Archbald co-authored Beyond Standardized Testing: Assessing Authentic Academic Achievement in the Secondary School, as well as other leading publications on authentic assessment. From 1992–1998, Archbald helped design and was a core faculty member of the National Principals' Leadership Academy. Between 1996 and 2000 Archbald was principal investigator for a federally funded national study of school choice policy and a project consultant for a federally funded research and development initiative supporting school-focused data support systems.

Archbald has served as an advisor, consultant, and evaluator for a variety of projects including the Delaware Mathematics Teacher Enhancement Partnership (federally sponsored multi-year professional development projects); the Delaware Education Governance and Accountability Commission; the National Education Goals Panel’s review of state content standards; the Council of Chief State School Officer's national evaluation of state curriculum frameworks in math and science; and several national studies sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education focused on systemic education reform.

Archbald has published widely in a variety of scholarly journals including Educational Policy, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Assessment, Sociology of Education, and American Secondary Education.

Archbald began his career in education as an elementary school teacher and science curriculum developer in Madison, Wisconsin from 1978-1985. Dr. Archbald received his Ph.D. in Educational Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988.

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