Lisa Foster, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

• EDUC 210: Differentiated Teaching & Learning
• EDUC 411: Elementary School Curriculum Practicum
• EDUC 415 (Lead Instructor): Diagnostic Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC 425 (Lead Instructor): Content Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC 475: Student Teaching Seminar
• EDUC 476/477: Student Teaching I & II
• EDUC 518: Educational Research & Assessment
• EDUC 590: Student Teaching I: Local
• EDUC 645: Foundations for Educational Leaders
• EDUC 747: Advanced Educational Law
• EDUC 750 (SME): Survey of Educational Research
• EDUC 812: Advanced Educational Statistics
• EDUC 815: Quantitative Methods of Research
• EDUC 887-890: Capstone I-Defense
• EDUC 915: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
• EDUC 919: Professional Writing & Research
• EDUC 970: Comprehensive Exam
• EDUC 980: Dissertation Prospectus
• EDUC 987-990: Dissertation I-Defense

Professional Memberships

• American Educational Research Association
• National Association for the Gifted Children
• Mixed Methods International Research Association
• Society for Implementation Research Collaboration
• Council on Undergraduate Research
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Phi Delta Kappa
• Pi Lambda Theta
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Tau Beta Sigma

Biography

Dr. Foster serves as a full-time faculty member at Liberty University and is the Assessment Coordinator for the School of Education and Program Director of Educational Leadership.  She began her career as a Spanish teacher, later moving to education research, and then into teacher education and doctoral studies. She also teaches research courses as an adjunct with Liberty University Online.

Publications

• Foster, L., Oh, S., Callahan, C., & Azano, A. (2017) Adherence: A more nuanced usage of fidelity of implementation’s core component to capture variation in treatment effects. Journal of Academic Perspectives, 2017(2), 1-46.
• Darrow, C., Goodson, B., Century, J., Dumont, K., Cassata, A., Foster, L., . . .Kaufman, S. (2017). Measuring implementation—Is it time to think about evidence standards? Abt Associates, Inc. and W. T. Grant Foundation.
• Valentine, J., Wilson, S., Tanner-Smith, E., Yeide, M., LaSota, R., & Foster, L. (2016). Synthesizing evidence in public policy contexts: The challenge of synthesis when there are only a few studies. Evaluation Review, 41(1).
• Missett, T., & Foster, L. (2015).  Fidelity in the field of gifted and talented education research:  A meta-analysis.  Journal of Advanced Academics, 26(2), 96-111.
• White, T., Kim, J., Kingston, H., & Foster, L. (2014). Replicating the effects of a teacher-scaffolded voluntary summer reading program: The role of poverty.  Reading Research Quarterly, 49 (1), 5-30.
• Foster, L. (2011).  Fidelity: Snapshots of implementation of a curricular intervention. (Doctoral dissertation). ProQuest. (3485327)
• Azano, A., Missett, T., Callahan, C., Oh, S., Brunner, M., Foster, L., & Moon, T. (2011).  Exploring the relationship between fidelity of implementation and academic achievement in a third-grade gifted curriculum: A mixed-methods Study.  Journal of Advanced Academics, 22, 693-719.

Research Interests

• Fidelity of implementation
• Educational leadership
• Literacy
• Gifted education
• Program evaluation
• Higher education