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Xiaofan
Cai ...
...is
a doctoral student in Evaluation
, Measurement and Research at Western
Michigan University. She earned her Master’s degree in Higher
and Adult Education with a concentration on Counseling. Her interests
focus on measurement and applied research
as well as cross-cultural evaluations.
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Bianca
Montrosse ...
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is currently a doctoral student in Evaluation
and Applied Methods
at Claremont Graduate University, School of Behavioral and Organizational
Sciences. She earned her Master’s degree in psychology with
a co-concentration in Organizational Behavior and Program Evaluation
from Claremont Graduate University. For the last three years, she
has worked as both an internal and external evaluator
examining
the impact of health care, educational, and judicial programs. Her
areas of interest include cross-cultural evaluation
, evaluation
theory
and methodology
, and creative teaching practices.
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Chris
L. S. Coryn ...
...earned a
Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Social
Psychology from Indiana University. He began his doctoral studies
in Interdisciplinary Evaluation at Western Michigan University in
2004. He has 4 years of experience as an evaluator
and has completed
or participated in over 25 research and evaluation projects. Mr.
Coryn has received several honors and awards recognizing his research
and evaluation efforts, including the James R. Haines Award for
Outstanding Research in Psychology (2002), the SMART Merit Award
for Outstanding Research (2003), and the Indiana University Award
for Excellence in Graduate Research (2004). His work has been published
in Social Justice Research, International Criminal Justice Review,
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, and Current Research in
Social Psychology. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Multidisciplinary
Evaluation. Currently, he works on the National Science Foundation's
Advanced Technological Education program
evaluation being conducted
by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University.
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Tola
Ewers ...
... is a first-year
graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of
Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction. As she has
explored her interest in curriculum development for adult learners,
she has recognized the important impact which formative and summative
evaluations can have on the entire curriculum development process
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Additionally, her role as a conference coordinator for the UW's
Office of Continuing Medical Education requires the utilization
of evaluation as a key component in the planning strategy.
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Daniela
C. Schröter ...
... belongs
to the first cohort of doctoral students in the Interdisciplinary
PhD in Evaluation at Western Michigan University and works as a
doctoral research associate in The Evaluation Center. She has 2
years of evaluation-specific experience and is currently involved
in the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education
program evaluation
. Daniela is an Associate Editor of the Journal
of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE). She has a strong teaching
record in foreign languages, negotiation trainings, and intercultural
communications, and has edited two books: an anthology in intercultural
business communications and a novel.
Daniela earned her master's degree from Friedrich Schiller University
in Jena, Germany in Intercultural Business Communications, German
as a Foreign/Second Language, and American Studies.
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Subcommittee Representatives
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Ariana
Brooks ...
... is a doctoral student in the social
psychology program
. She holds a B.S in psychology from UCLA and
received her Master’s in psychology from CGU this year. Her
research interests are in ethnic/racial identity development, drug
abuse prevention, media (specifically anti-drug campaigns and rap
music) and program evaluation
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Patrick
A. Serumola ...
... is pursuing a PhD (ABD) in Instructional
Design
, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University. He currently
works as an Evaluation Intern in the Research and Evaluation Unit
of Syracuse University Project
Advance. He also consulted internally
and externally as an evaluator
for both educational and corporate
settings. His research interests include the impact of information
technology in organizations, Human interactions in Computer Mediated-Communication
Environments, Program
Evaluation, Activity Systems Theory
and Policy
Analysis.
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Tanya
Brown ...
Tanya Brown
is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University.
She is also a fellow in the American Evaluation Association/Duquesne
University Diversity Internship program. Currently she is working
on an ethnographic evaluation of a community
initiative. Her interests
include qualitative methods
, collaborative and participatory
evaluation,
and critical theories in the human sciences.
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