New
Department:
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
Effective July 1, 2009, a
new department has been created
that integrates the business and
marketing education, human
resource development and adult
education, and comprehensive
WHRE programs from the
Department of
Work and Human Resource
Education (WHRE) into the
department formerly known as
Educational Policy and
Administration (EdPA). The
name of this new department is
Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development (OLPD).
It will offer exciting
opportunities for collaboration
and interdisciplinary education
and research. Click
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Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) 2009
Keynote speakers
Sandra Mathison is a Professor of Education at the University
of British Columbia, Canada and Editor of New Directions for Evaluation. She has
been conducting evaluations, primarily in educational settings, for more than 25
years. She began her career as an internal evaluator at a Canadian community college
and has subsequently conducted dozens of external evaluations and served as the
Director of Evaluation for the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project
for three years. Her current research focuses on the limits of evaluation in schools.
With funding from the National Science Foundation, she is conducting research on
the effects of high stakes testing on teaching and learning in elementary and middle
schools. Sandra has written extensively about this topic in an effort to encourage
a more informed public discourse about the value of schools and schooling. She chaired
the American Evaluation Association (AEA) task force that created a policy statement
on high stakes testing in K-12 schooling and is Co-editor (with E. Wayne Ross) of
Defending Public Schools: The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment.
Hazel Symonette is a Senior Policy and Program Development Specialist
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin System Administration:
an educator, researcher, and program development and assessment specialist. She
advocates assessment/evaluation as a participant-centered self-diagnostic resource
for continuous improvement and strategic image management, and is committed to creating
authentically inclusive and vibrantly responsive teaching, learning, and working
environments that are conducive to success for all. She moves this agenda forward
through a variety of strategies—most notably through cultivating capacities to use
planning, assessment, and evaluation tools to advance a diversity-grounded personal
transformation, organizational development and social justice change agenda. Hazel
is the founder and director of the UW-Madison Excellence Through Diversity Institute
and served three years as Co-chair of the AEA’s Building Diversity Initiative and
as Co-chair of the Minority Issues in Evaluation Topical Interest Group. She has
recently completed a three-year elected term on the national Board of Directors
of the AEA.
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