Susan Lyons’s work centers on promoting and evaluating the quality of assessment and accountability systems. She is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project, where she leads much of the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system—including the validity and comparability of the annual determinations for federal accountability. Susan is also working to support states as they transition their assessment and accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) through her work with the with multiple states and partnerships with key educational organizations