Richard Lambert is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Director of the Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, and Editor of NHSA Dialog: A Research-to-Practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field. He earned his Ph.D. in research, measurement, and statistics and Ed.S. in counseling psychology from Georgia State University. He has received over 20 million dollars in funding for research. He serves as the Principal Investigator for an award from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction entitled “Evaluating the Implementation of a Formative Assessment System in North Carolina Kindergarten Classrooms” and an award from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services entitled “Coaching, Mentoring, Performance Evaluation, and Professional Development for BK Licensed Teachers in Non-public School Classrooms.” His research interests include formative assessment for young children, applied statistics, and teacher stress and coping. He has served the College Board in the AP Statistics program for 20 years as a reader, table leader, question leader, and rubric team member.