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Educational Research and Evaluation Goals

	Contribute to continually refining Alverno's educational frameworks, assumptions, principles, and practices.
	Initiate and maintain research and evaluation as a concept and function at Alverno.
	Research and evaluate the value, impact, validity, and effectiveness of the curriculum (including performance assessment) in relation to student and alumna outcomes, outstanding professionals who are not Alverno alumnae, disciplinary, professional, and accreditation standards, and pictures of human potential drawn from a range of theoretical frameworks in human abilities, learning, development, and performance.
	Contribute to creating more generalizable models of adult abilities, learning, development, and performance in college and beyond.
	Create effective, diverse modes of inquiry for reflecting on practice, for gathering, interpreting, and using information, and for demonstrating scholarship in teaching and learning.
	Contribute to program, student, and faculty development.
	Collaborate in ensuring the quality of various research and evaluation activities within the college.
	Establish Alverno as an accountable educational institution in the local/professional community.
	Elicit constructive critique from colleagues and establish Alverno as a contributor to higher education research and evaluation.

The following is a list of Educational Research and Evaluation members. Please click on a name to see a photo and more information about the department member.

Marcia Mentkowski, PhD

Glen Rogers, PhD

William Rickards, PhD

Kathleen Schwan Minik, MA

Denise Sanders, BS

Lynn Chabot-Long

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