MarciaMentkowski, PhD

Director, Educational Research and Evaluation
Professor of Psychology

Chair, Research and Evaluation Council

Alverno College
Educational Research and Evaluation
3400 South 43rd Street
PO Box 343922
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53234-3922

Contact Marcia at:
414-382-6265

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Mentkowski initiated Alverno's approaches to educational research and institutional assessment in 1976, including the Alverno longitudinal research, the validation of performance assessment, and evaluation of major fields.

	serves on Alverno's Educational Policies Committee
	is a long-standing member of Alverno's Council for Student Assessment
	is a member of Alverno's Valuing in Decision-Making Department
	has served on Alverno's Curriculum Committee
Affiliations
	Advisory Board of Core Commitments: Educating Students of Personal and Social Responsibility (AAC&U)
	immediate past Vice President of Division I (Education in the Professions) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
	American Evaluation Association (AEA)
	Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
	Association for Moral Education (AME)
	Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
	Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
	Consulting editor for Assessment Update
	National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
	Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
	Editorial board of Active Learning in Higher Education
	Editorial board of Learning in Health Social Care
Recent Publications Include
	Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond Mentkowski, M., & Associates. (2000). Learning that lasts: Integrating learning, development, and performance in college and beyond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
	Enacting a Collaborative Scholarship of Assessment Mentkowski, M., & Loacker, G. (2002). Enacting a collaborative scholarship of assessment. In T. W. Banta & Associates, Building a scholarship of assessment (pp. 82–99). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
	Higher Education Assessment and National Goals for Education: Issues, Assumptions, and Principles Mentkowski, M. (1998). Higher education assessment and national goals for education: Issues, assumptions, and principles. In N. M. Lambert & B. L. McCombs (Eds.), How students learn: Reforming schools through learner-centered education (pp. 269–310). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
	How Assessment Practitioners Who Are Educational Researchers Can Contribute to Assessment in Higher Education Mentkowski, M. (1994, January-February). How assessment practitioners who are educational researchers can contribute to assessment in higher education. Assessment Update, 6(1), 1–2, 10–11.
	Creating a Culture Where Assessment Improves Learning Loacker, G., & Mentkowski, M. (1993). Creating a culture where assessment improves learning. In T. W. Banta & Associates, Making a difference: Outcomes of a decade of assessment in higher education (pp. 5–24). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
	Accessible and Adaptable Elements of Alverno Student Assessment-as-Learning: Strategies and Challenges for Peer Review Mentkowski, M. (in press). Accessible and adaptable elements of Alverno student assessment-as-learning: Strategies and challenges for peer review. In C. Bryan & K. Clegg (Eds.), Innovative assessment in higher education. London, UK: Taylor and Francis.

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