Doctoral Students

Manuel Brenes

Research Interests:
Success case methodology.

John Brusk

Research Interests:
Information technology, measurement, and web-based mental health staging.

Hongyan Cui

Research Interests:
The use and analysis of preferential ranked data, measurement

Katie Daniels

Dissertation Title:
An Examination of Response Shift Bias in Retrospective Pretesting Using a Measurement Invariance Model

Jason Davey

Research Interests:
Mathematical Statistics, Sample Size Estimation, Test Equating, Item Response Theory, Classical Test Theory.

Tammy (DeRoo) Russell

Research Interests:
Program Evaluation of Health & Human Services

Cheryl Endres

Research Interests:
Evaluation of systems change, collaboration and partnership, as well as outcomes/results management.  Other interests include how evaluation tools intersect with systems thinking tools. 

Kristen Everett

Research Interests:
Educational evaluation and research, policy development, and multi-level evaluation.

Maxine Gilling

Research Interests:
Evaluation, historical analysis.

June Gothberg

Research Interests:
Measurement of individual education plans (IEPs), inclusive education, the use of participatory action research, youth gang prevention and intervention, workforce development, vocational placement and evaluation, and prisoner release initiatives.

John Hoye

Research Interests:
Evaluation of library systems.

Mukaria Itang'ata

Research Interests:
Measurement, Monte Carlo designs, propensity score matching.

Nakia James

Research Interests:
Increasing Nonprofit Sustainability Activities with Effective Requests for Proposals (RFP's): A Mixed Methods Evaluation of RFP's as an Instrument for Success.

Diyana Kamarudin

Research Interests:

Michael Kiella

Research Interests:

Julien Kouame'

Research Interests:
Evaluation of health programs for international development.

Monica Lininger

Research Interests: Research design within sports medicine and hierarchical linear modeling.

Michael Miller

Research Interests:
The effects of temperature with ultrasound at relative and absolute depths in the muscle controlling for subcutaneous adipose tissue.

Penelope Miller-Smith

Research Interests:
Adequate yearly progress of schools,  No Child Left Behind.

Kimberly Searing

Research Interests:
Nursing education related to the use of simulation and student dyads in clinical instruction

Stein Slette

Research Interests: Human Athletic Performance

Matthew VanGessel

Research Interests:
Evaluation models in health systems.

Geoffrey Whitehurst

Research Interests:
Item response theory.

Kathryn Wilson

Research Interests:
Evaluation and research design of health, alternative health, and human service organizations, historical analysis, Non-profit organizational sustainability, and the application of statistics programming

Zhenji Zhou

Research Interests:
Measurement theory & application,longitudinal & comparative study, and statistical modeling & application