Education:
B.A. in English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
M.Ed. in Curriculum Design and Instruction, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Janine is a third-year doctoral student and Research Analyst in the Center for Predictive Analytics. She has extensive classroom teaching experience as a certified elementary and secondary teacher in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Janine also spent several years as a Lead Teacher and Data Coordinator for select schools in the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Her primary research centers around the development and validation of instruments used to measure affective characteristics of teachers as well as non-cognitive measures of student success. Janine is a 2021-2022 White House HBCU Scholar and currently serves as the student member of the Outreach Committee for the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), a member of the Psychometric Society Graduate Student Committee, the Chair of the Jamaica Diaspora Education Task Force Education Leadership Committee, and the Programming and Events Director for the International HBCU Exchange (iHBCUx).