

Telephone: 617-552-0708
Email: nathaniel.js.brown@bc.edu
ORCID
Classroom Assessment
Introductory Statistics
Intermediate Statistics
Classroom assessment with a focus on formative feedback, assessment for learning, and alternative grading practices; large-scale assessment; learning progressions; conceptual change
Nathaniel J. S. Brown is an Associate Research Professor in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment Department. His current research examines classroom assessment with a focus on formative feedback, assessment for learning, and alternative grading practices. Related to this research, Dr. Brown has led numerous professional development workshops for schools looking to make assessment and grading more equitable and useful.
Dr. Brown has also conducted research on large-scale assessment, learning progressions, and conceptual change in the fields of STEM education and the learning sciences. He has broad expertise in a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, including statistics, psychometrics, Rasch measurement, video analysis, interaction analysis, and conversation analysis.
Dr. Brown is an editor (with Andrea A. diSessa and Mariana Levin) of Knowledge and Interaction: A Synthetic Agenda for the Learning Sciences, a seminal volume bringing together experts in knowledge analysis and interaction analysis. He was previously the Director of the Learning Engineering program at Boston College. He has experience with online course development and is responsible for the redesign of the Introductory Statistics course at Boston College.