Dianna L. Newman Associate Professor Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Newman's area of emphasis includes program evaluation, educational research, and statistics. Her current research is on improvement of evaluation utilization in health, mental health, and educational settings- including the relationship of interpersonal factors. She is also active in research investing contextual variables which affect the ethics of inquiry. She is co-author of Applied Ethics in Program Evaluation and has numerous publications in New Directions in Program Evaluation, Evaluation Review and Applied Measurement in Education. Dr. Newman is a member of the American Evaluation Association and the American Educational Research Association. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association, and is currently serving on the Joint Committee for Education Standards. Dr. Newman also serves as Director of the Evaluation Consortium.

E-mail: dnewman@uamail.albany.edu