Success Stories

Selected Presentations

 Best Practices and Pitfalls of Course Evaluation (November 2011).  North Carolina Community College Association of Distance Learning, Raleigh, NC.

The “Big 6” Predictors of Response Rates (May 2011).  AIR 2011 Annual Forum, Toronto.

Perceptions and Misperceptions of Online Course Evaluation (April 2011).  VCCS New Horizons, Roanoke, VA.

Developing a Mock Certification Exam: Preparing students (2007).  Assembly on Education, Chicago, IL.  With V. Prater, L. Stefurak, & A. Karim.   

Learning from Doing:  Writing Assessments in a Multi-Campus Institution (May 2007).  Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL.  With M. Roze & R. Rossi. 

Embedded Evaluation: Moving From Autopsy to Continuous Improvement (November 2004).  Tenth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, FL. 

 Evaluation concerns for new distance learning programs (November 2001). Invited presentation to FIPSE’s Annual Conference (U.S. Dept of Education), San Diego, CA.

Embedded Assessment (December 2001). Invited discussant at Symposium on Web Based Learning Environments to Support Learning: Design and Evaluation.  Sponsored by U.S. DoE.

 The status of online testing (November 2000).   Invited panel at the Learning Anytime Anywhere Program (U.S. Dept of Education), Annual Project Directors’ Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Plan to evaluate then evaluate your plan (September 2000).   Invited presentation at the Government Technology Conference 2000, Albany, NY.  With R. A. Wisher.

Evaluating distance learning effectiveness: Paper-based or internet approach? (August 2000).  16th annual conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison, WI.  With R. A. Wisher.

Distance learning: A triangular perspective (May 2000).  ASTD international conference, Dallas, TX. With K. Mantyla, S. G. Fisher, & R. A. Wisher.

Measuring learning outcomes in distributed learning environments (February 2000).  Workshop at the Training 2000 conference, Atlanta, GA.  With R. A. Wisher.

An evaluation of distance training programs (August 1999). 15th annual conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison, WI.  With R. A. Wisher, J. L. Pawluk, & C.K. Curnow.

A technology-based evaluation method for improving the delivery of distance education (April 1999).  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference.  With S. H. Konya.