AEA Coffee Break Webinar Series: Graduate and Certificate Programs in Evaluation Evaluation, Assessment, & Policy Connections (EvAP) School of Education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Dr. Rita O'Sullivan, Associate Professor & Director Johnavae Campbell, Doctoral Student Contact Information: or 919/
December 2011 BWF Career Award Eval 1 Program Evaluation Offerings: School of Education - Public Health - Social Work – Health Sciences -
Evaluation, Assessment and Policy Connections (EvAP) Part of the School of Education providing graduate students opportunity for: Practical experience through research assistantships on EvAP projects In depth look at approaches to Collaborative Evaluation Opportunities for presentation and proposal writing February 2012
Program Requirements February 2012 Graduate Degree in Education: Specializations in: Culture, Curriculum and Change Degree Requirements: Master’s: degree requires two full semesters of residence and completion of a minimum of 30 semester hours in advanced course work, including 3-6 hours of thesis; comprehensive exams also are required. Doctoral: Ph.D. (full time)/Ed.D. (part time): program of coursework very flexible, comprehensive exams plus dissertation.
December 2011 EvAP Eval Institute Flexible Coursework Quantitative Methods - Qualitative Methods - Program Evaluation -
EvAP Eval Institute Research Assistantships In-state tuition + 15,000K and potential for tuition remission 20 hours/week work experience in program evaluation on actual projects Potential for evaluation trainings, skill- building, paper presentation, and publications February 2012
Current Projects Project Skills UsedProject Titles Survey DevelopmentAmerican Indian Center Web-based Focus GroupsAppalachian State University Interviews and Technical Assistance Burroughs Welcome Fund Secondary Data AnalysisNC GEAR UP Evaluation PlanningHoward Hughes Medical Institute Instrument DevelopmentNASA EvaluationSCALE-UP Proposal and Report WritingNESCent Social Network AnalysisTraCS Face to Face Focus GroupsUNC Baccalaureate in Education for Science Teaching (UNC-BEST) Logic Model DevelopmentYMCA Higher Education Project February 2012
Potential Conferences, Proposals & Publications National, State and Local Conferences: American Evaluation Association American Education Research Association NCARE Graduate Research Symposium Proposals: National Institute of Health National Science Foundation Department of Education Journals: Mentoring, high school, program planning and evaluation, measurement, statistics, youth development and education psychology
Questions? February 2012