Karina Jaquet is a Research Associate in the Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) at WestEd. Karina Jaquet performs quantitative research to improve the practice and policy of education with a focus on educator effectiveness issues, math placement, and reducing college remediation.

Currently, as a member of the Educator Effectiveness partnership, Karina Jaquet provides evidence-based analysis and technical assistance to practitioners. She focuses on policy and program evaluation, data management, and research methodology.

During the past five years, Jaquet has worked closely with Assistant Superintendents of seven elementary school districts and one high school district providing research support for math placement and policy. She has also worked on several rigorous impact evaluations; the most recent one on an impact evaluation of an English curriculum to reduce college remediation.

Prior to joining WestEd, Jaquet worked on K-12 education policy research at the Public Policy Institute of California. There she focused on English language learners, Common Core State Standards, early childhood and education programs, special education, special education finance, and accountability issues under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Jaquet also worked as a field researcher in Guatemala with a BASIS grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, and as outreach specialist for FIRST 5, Santa Clara County (CA).

She received a BA in economics from the University of California, Davis, and a MA in international and development economics from the University of San Francisco.