Claire is an education research professional with ten years' experience in public, nonprofit, and university settings. She is currently an IES Predoctoral Fellow and a PhD Candidate in Quantitative Methods at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Statistics from The Wharton School. Prior to graduate school, Claire directed research projects in partnership with large school districts in the southern and eastern United States as a Project Director at the education nonprofit TNTP, studying the effect of programs to improve teaching quality, teacher retention and instructional materials.

Claire is an applied statistician with an interest in bridging policy and measurement. Her current projects include a study of the psychometric properties of all state standardized tests in the United States and the implications of state test churn on longitudinal studies of learning. Claire is interested in fairness in measurement as it relates to evaluating what works well for kids and in the intersection of advanced quantitative methods and practical problems of measurement. She also seeks to improve methods for extracting usable, structured data from education policy documents and other artifacts from local and state education agencies. She is a Fellow in the Institute for Education Sciences Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-Based Research.

Allen-Platt, C., Gerstner, C., Boruch, R., & Ruby, A. (In press). Toward a science of failure analysis: a narrative review. Review of Research in Education, 45.

Allen-Platt, C., Park, S., Oh, J., Lee, S., & Boruch, R. (2019). Attrition of newly recruited teachers in Pennsylvania: From 2011/2012 to 2017/2018. (Research report submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Education in fulfillment of a PDE Research Scholar Award).

Allen-Platt, C., Park, S., Oh, J., & Boruch, R. (2020). Attrition of STEM teachers in Pennsylvania: From 2011/2012 to 2017/2018. (Research report submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Education in fulfillment of a PDE Research Scholar Award).

Boruch, R., Allen-Platt, C., & Gerstner, C. (2019). To randomize or not to randomize? That is the question. [Special Issue: Theorists' Models in Action: A Second Look]. New Directions for Evaluation, 163, pp. 73-82.