Dr. Bland is currently a co-PI for an NSF grant, Trajectories of Informal Learning among Engineering Students – Theoretical and Empirical Contributions for Understanding and Measuring Impact. Her research interests focus on decision-making, assessment, program evaluation within multiple contexts, such as gifted education and engineering education. Dr. Bland is also the evaluator on an NSF grant, Designing Teaching: Scaling up the SIMPLE Design Framework for Interactive Teaching Development. She is on the Editorial Board for Gifted Child Quarterly and Contemporary Educational Psychology. She teaches masters and doctoral level courses in Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation, Data-driven Decision-Making, and Gifted Education.