Lynn Mellor, Ph.D.

Lynn Mellor received her Ph.D. in educational psychology with a specialization in quantitative methods from UT-Austin in 1995. She is currently working as a principal researcher at American Institutes for Research, she serves as the deputy director of the IES-funded Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Southwest. Dr. Mellor is also the principal investigator of an IES-funded research grant to evaluate the new graduation requirements in Texas as a result of House Bill 5. Between 2012 and 2017, Dr. Mellor served as co-principal investigator and study director on an IES-funded opportunistic experiment that examined the impact of providing information to parents in Texas about the role of Algebra II in college admission.