Evaluation Education and Data Cleaning with Jennifer Ann Morrow

This week I am joined by Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow, the program coordinator of the Evaluation Statistics and Measurement doctoral program (soon to be named "Evaluation Statistics and Methodology) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. We talked about teaching evaluation and data cleaning in evaluation.

Topics Covered:

• Jennifer’s background, philosophy, and experience in teaching evaluation (01:58)
• Our favorite evaluation activities: evaluating cookies, one-pages on hot topics and people in evaluation, evaluation failures, self-reflection journals, practical experience outside of class (11:33)
• Personal professional development in data visualization and R (32:00)
• What’s giving Jennifer life in evaluation right now (38:40)
• Data cleaning book proposal by Jennifer and Gary Skolits (44:13)
• What’s next for Jennifer (50:55)

Resources mentioned:

• Preskill & Russ-Eft (2015) Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training
• Wanzer (2020) What is evaluation paper (preprint)
• Hutchinson (2018) Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
• Jennifer’s student’s blog on user experience for Ann K. Emery
• Great Graphs with Ann K. Emery](https://depictdatastudio.com/)
• R for the Rest of Us with David Keyes](https://rfortherestofus.com/)
• Amy Cesal Play-Doh data visualization activity
• Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead’s research on what ought to be included in the curriculum for master’s and doctoral eval programs
• Jennifer’s handout on the 12 steps to data cleaning](http://comm.eval.org/qual/viewdocument/cbd146-a-brief-intr-1)

Contact:

• Jennifer Ann Morrow: @evaluationdiva on Twitter and [email protected]
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

About Jennifer:

Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow is currently the program coordinator of the Evaluation Statistics and Measurement doctoral program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her main areas of research are higher education assessment and evaluation and effective strategies for teaching methodology. She has been teaching evaluation and methodology courses for the past 22 years. She is passionate about evaluation and assessment and regularly tweets on these topics (@evaluationdiva). In her spare time she loves to travel and explore the beautiful towns and mountains of Tennessee.

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/