President
Evaluation & Development Associates LLC, United States
Dr. Susan Tucker, President of Evaluation & Development Associates LLC, is a mixed methods evaluator with more than 30 years’ experience. Along with designing and teaching evaluation and research courses to develop students’ professional evaluator competencies, she has experience helping school districts and universities understand competencies and professional standards, using evidence for program improvement as well as preparing for accreditation in STEM fields.
Until 2000, she worked as a school psychologist, school administrator, and as a professor of program evaluation and research. Since 2000, she has managed her own external evaluation firm with 3–5-year contracts funded by a variety of federal, state, and private agencies including NSF, NIH, USDE, and USAID. These synergistic experiences have allowed her to research and develop new evidence-based approaches and tools for collaborative logic modeling, culturally responsive evaluation, and evaluation capacity building of program management and staff which have enabled: (1) recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities; 2) increasing graduation rates and decreased time to degree, and (3) career development opportunities so students adapt and excel once in the STEM workforce.
In terms of evaluation leadership experiences, she recently completed her second three-year term as the Treasurer and Board member (2014-19) of the American Evaluation Association. From 2015-19, Tucker served on AEA’s Competencies Task Force developing strategies validating critical evaluator competencies. She is currently chairing AEA’s Working Group on Evaluator Professionalization and Competencies Development. This work was recently published in New Directions for Evaluation, a quarterly sourcebook and one of two official journals of the American Evaluation Association. In collaboration with Jean King and Laurie Stevahn, the American Journal of Evaluation recently published an article: Professionalizing Evaluation: A Time-Bound Comparison of the American Evaluation Association’s Foundational Documents. Both publications were developed to help ground future evaluator professionalization activities and research.
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