Leslie Karn Goodyear Education Development Center

43 Foundry Avenue Waltham, MA 02453 lgoodyear@edc.org

617-618-2354 EDUCATION Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca, New York Ph.D., January 2001 Program Evaluation and Planning Department of Policy Analysis and Management Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca, New York Master of Science, May 1997 Program Evaluation and Planning Department of Human Service Studies Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, May 1988 SELECTED EVALUATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Education Development Center, Newton, MA 2003 – present Learning and Teaching Division Principal Research Scientist - On leave to NSF from 2009-2011. - Principal Investigator for multiple large and small evaluation and evaluation capacity building projects such as

evaluation of Broadening Participation in Computing –Alliances program for NSF; Adobe Youth Voices, Adobe, Inc.’s signature international philanthropy initiative; Teen Science Café Network, an NSF funded project; STEM Guides, an NSF funded project; Illinois 21st Century Community Learning Centers, funded by the Illinois State Board of Education; and technical assistance and evaluation capacity building for the C.S. Mott Foundation and Noyce Foundation-funded State Afterschool STEM initiative.

- Conceptualize, write and disseminate evaluation and research briefs, article and books to diverse practitioner and research audiences; coordinate presentations at national conferences, including AEA, CREA, EES and AERA.

- Serve as evaluation design consultant to other EDC projects as needed. - Lead Evaluation community and capacity building efforts within EDC. - From 2003 – 2008, led research and evaluation technical assistance for National Science Foundation-funded

Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Learning Resource Center, which provided services to over 100 projects nationwide.

National Science Foundation January 2009 – December 2011 Program Director, Lifelong Learning Cluster Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Environments Directorate of Education and Human Resources

- Responsible for granting funds and setting policy for the Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL), the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) and the Promoting Research and Innovation for Methodologies in Evaluation (PRIME) programs. Managed a portfolio of projects totaling approximately $15 million. Responsibilities included contributing to the development of program policies and solicitations, convening experts for peer review panels, writing review analyses, making funding decisions for projects averaging $3 million each, and grants management for funded projects.

- Led and coordinated evaluation initiatives for the Division. Facilitate other Program Directors to determine scope and focus of program level evaluations for the five programs housed in the Division. Developed statements of work and contracted the appropriate evaluation expertise to design and implement the evaluation. Worked with others in the Directorate and Agency who conduct and manage program evaluations to ensure quality control. Managed evaluation contracts for the Division, totaling more than $13 Million.

- Upon returning to EDC, regularly invited to serve on review panels, attend and present at thought leader meetings at NSF.

City Year, Inc., Boston, MA 2002 – 2003 National Director of Evaluation - Oversaw evaluation efforts for City Year’s 13-site national network of programs.

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- Supervised $2 million Evidence of Impact studies, comprised of contracted four-year studies targeting impact on

alumni and outcomes of corporate and service partnerships. - Designed evaluation and results-based monitoring systems that met City Year’s site and national information needs

for reporting and to guide programmatic decision-making. Intercultural Center for Research in Education, Arlington, MA 2001 – 2002 Senior Evaluation Associate Conducted evaluations of school reform initiatives in the Boston Public Schools. Harvard Family Research Project, Cambridge, MA 2000 –2001 Managing editor and research associate. - Managing editor of national quarterly newsletter, The Evaluation Exchange, with readership of over 10,000

evaluators, practitioners, funders, academics and policy makers. - Research associate on national-level meta-analytic research project directed at understanding the state of the art in

program evaluation in the out-of-school time field. New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children, Ithaca, NY 1999 – 2001 Contracted program evaluator Designed and carried out mixed-method evaluation of program’s federally funded CoalitioNet project. American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC 1998 – 1999 Contracted program evaluator Co-designed and conducted a mixed-method evaluation of the AERA Grants Program, assessing the extent to which the program reached its goal of encouraging the educational research community to conduct high quality, policy- and practice-relevant research using large-scale federal databases. DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY 1997 Contracted program evaluator Worked with Historical Society staff to design and implement an evaluation of Phase I of the Discovering Local History Dramatically project. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1997 Contracted program evaluator Co-designed and conducted program review of the Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office. Cornell University Family Life Development Center, Ithaca, NY 1996 Contracted program evaluator Conducted literature review to inform evaluation of Cornell Cooperative Extension home visiting programs. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1995 – 1996 Contracted program evaluator Co-designed and implemented mixed-method evaluation of new High School Science curriculum. Cornell Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 1995 Contracted program evaluator Designed and conducted a participatory case study evaluation of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Talking With Kids About HIV/AIDS Parent HIV/AIDS Education Project in New York City. PROGRAM EXPERIENCE: Sexual Violence Center, Minneapolis MN 1989 – 1994 Director of Educational and Fundraising Canvass - Raised $350,000 annually through door-to-door outreach to support rape crisis counseling and educational

programs. - Supervised field managers and canvassers, coordinated Canvass operations, payroll, budget management,

recruitment and ongoing training of canvassers, and program development. - Assisted agency staff within the organization; supervised ten volunteers’ case consultations; answered crisis calls as

needed and participated as a member of the program staff in the development and implementation of SVC’s long term program objectives.

Minnesota AIDS Project, Minneapolis, MN 1988 – 1989, 1992

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Outreach Educator Targeted injecting drug users and their partners as a member of first HIV/AIDS prevention outreach team in Minnesota directed at this population. Outreach included talking to people on the street, in shelters and in bars about clean needle use, risk reduction and safer sex. DISSERTATION GRANTS Cornell University College of Human Ecology Graduate Fellowship 1999 – 2000 ADJUNCT FACULTY Johnson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island 2005 – 2012 Review and provide feedback on dissertation proposals for the department of Educational Leadership of the Graduate School of Education. Lecture each semester on evaluation issues and methods. ASSOCIATE EDITOR 2014 – 2017 American Journal of Evaluation SECTION EDITOR American Journal of Evaluation, Ethical Challenges Section 2010 - 2013 EXTERNAL REVIEWER American Journal of Evaluation, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2004 – Present Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, Canadian Evaluation Society 2006 – Present Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication. Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier 2007 - Present Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication. Jossey-Bass Publications, San Francisco, CA 2005 – Present Serve as peer reviewer on book proposals submitted to publisher. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Evaluation Association - Member since 1995 - AEA Board Member, 2007-2009 – Chair of the Internal Scan Task Force - Co-Chair of the Qualitative Methods Topical Interest Group, 2002 - 2015 - Ethics Committee: Chair, 2005, member 2004 – 2006; member and chair of Ethics Professional

Development Task Force CONTRACT EVALAUTION WORK Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI 2008 – 2010 - Supervised implementation of large scale, multi-site evaluation of the Health Through Action Initiative,

which serves the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations. SERVICE/CONSULTATIONS Global Habitat Project Board of Directors 2000 – 2006 - Board Chair, 2003-2006

B.E.L.L., Boston, MA 2002 – Present - Member of National Evaluation Advisory Board.

Discovering Justice 2005 – 2006 - Evaluation consultation

Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts 2006 - Evaluation consultation

Urban Ecology Institute Board of Directors 2006 – 2009 Big Sister Association of Greater Boston 2007 – Present - Evaluation consultation

ACT for Youth 2007 – 2010 - Evaluation consultation

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PUBLICATIONS Goodyear, L., Barela, E., Jewiss, J. & Usinger, J. (Eds.) (2014). Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory

to Practice. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco. Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). Building a community of evaluation practice within a multisite program. In J. King

and F. Lawrenz (Eds.) Multisite Evaluation Practice: Lessons and Reflections from Four Cases. New Directions for Evaluation, Spring 2011, 129, pp. 97-105.

Goodyear, Leslie. (Ed.) (2007). Special Issue: Ethics in Evaluation. Evaluation and Program Planning, 30(4). Garibay, Cecilia and Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). The Role of Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation: A Mandate for

Inclusion, the Discovery of Truth and Understanding. Visitor Studies, 10(2), pp. 223-227. Goodyear, Leslie and Carlson, Bethany. (2007). The ITEST Learning Resource Center’s Online Evaluation Database:

Examples from the Collection. International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 3(1), pp. 51-65. Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). Poetry, Performance and Pathos in Evaluation Reporting. In S. Kushner and N. Norris

(Eds.) Dilemmas of Engagement. Volume 10 of the Advances in Program Evaluation Series. JAI Press: Oxford.

Goodyear, Leslie and Checkoway, Barry. (Eds.). (2003). Community Youth Development Journal, 4(1). Goodyear, Leslie. (2003). Engaging young people in evaluation as a strategy for field-building and innovation.

In Goodyear, L. and Checkoway, B. (Eds.) Community Youth Development Journal, 4(1), pp. 54-55. Greene, Jennifer, Benjamin, Lehn and Goodyear, Leslie. (2001). The merits of mixing methods in evaluation.

Evaluation, 7(1), pp. 25-44. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Goodyear, Leslie. (2014) Qualitative Inquiry in the Practice of Evaluation: Perspectives on Theory and

Practice. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO, October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2014). Understanding Ourselves Through Organizational Self-Assessment and Learning.

Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO, October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2014). Evaluating Equity-Focused Post-Secondary Educational Partnerships. Bi-Annual

Meeting of the European Evaluation Society. Dublin, Ireland, October, 2014. Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). The Secret Lives of Outcomes: A conversation about how

they are defined, constituted, targeted, commodified and experienced. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). Insights into Interactions between Evaluation Policy and its Implementation. Paper

presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October. Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). Considerations for the New Evaluator when Incorporating Qualitative Inquiry into

Evaluation Practice. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2012). US Federal Program Evaluation from the Inside Out. Paper presentation at the

Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN, November.

Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Performance Indicators on the Psychological Well-being of Public Employees: An Interview and Discussion With the Researcher. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Anaheim, CA, November.

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Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). Evaluation of Discrete Steps in the Process of Institutionalizing Educational

Practices: Are We Asking the Right Questions? Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Anaheim, CA, November.

Goodyear, Leslie, Barela, Eric, Jewiss, Jennifer and Usinger, Janet (2010). Quality in Evaluation: How Do We Know It When We See It in Qualitative Evaluations? Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, San Antonio, TX, November.

Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2010). Evaluation System in the Public Interest. Panel presentation at the European Evaluation Society Meeting, Prague, CZ. October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2010). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2009). Context and Evaluation: Another Perspective on a Complex Relationship. Presidential Strand Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Orlando, FL, November.

Goodyear, Leslie and Parsons, Beverly. (2009). Building Evaluation Capacity, Learning and Use through Communities of Practice. Think Tank Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Orlando, FL, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2009). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2008). Fitting the Design to the Context: Examples from ITEST. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2008). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). The Role of Representation in Democratic Accountability and Evaluation. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Baltimore, MD, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.

Marquart, Jules, Goodyear, Leslie and Affholter, Dennis. (2006). Train the Trainers: How to Teach the American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Portland, OR, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2006). How can program evaluation contribute to understanding how diverse learners benefit from ISL? Presentation to the National Academy of Science Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments. September 20, Washington, D.C.

Goodyear, Leslie and Marquart, Jules. (2006). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.

Goodyear, Leslie and Lawrenz, Frances. (2005). Evaluating Information Technology Experience for Students and Teachers (ITEST): Three projects' experiences. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Ontario, CA, October.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2005). Performance, Poetry and Pathos in Evaluation Reporting. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Ontario, CA, October.

Goodyear, Leslie and Hartry, Ardice. (2004). Evaluation across disparate projects: The Information Technology

Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Experience. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2004). Humanizing outcomes: The promise of mixed format representations. Presentation at

the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November. Goodyear, Leslie (2003). Thinking Methodologically, Representing People’s Stories. Presentation at the Annual

Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Reno, NV. November.

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Goodyear, Leslie. (2002). Bringing youth involvement into the broader evaluation conversation: challenges and

opportunities. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (2001). The Democratic Promise of Mixed Format Representations for Presenting

Evaluation Findings: A Performative Paper Presentation. Alternative Format Session at Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, St Louis, MO, November.

Goodyear, Leslie and Lowe, Staci. (2000). Assessing the effectiveness of a technology-based child-

welfare initiative: Considerations for evaluation. Paper presentation at the Evaluation for Practice Conference. Huddersfield, England, July.

Goodyear, Leslie. (1999). “A circle that it’s time to open.” Performance presentation at Society for the Study of

Symbolic Interaction Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, August. Goodyear, Leslie. (1999). Representational form and audience understanding: An experiment Paper presentation

at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Orlando, FL, November. Goodyear, Leslie. (1998). From research to reflection: Using performance as a re-presentation of a

participatory evaluation. Paper presentation and performance at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Chicago, IL, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (1997). “A circle that it’s time to open.” A Performance as Representation of

Inquiry. Paper presentation and performance at Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age. University of Southern California, June.

Goodyear, Leslie. (1996). Participation, representation and social change: What is an evaluator's role?

Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November.

Goodyear, Leslie and Lachance, Andrea. (1996). Stakeholders as gatekeepers: Practical implications for

multiplistic evaluation. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November.

Goodyear, Leslie. (1995). Talking With Kids About AIDS: A case study of new volunteer leaders in New York

City. Roundtable presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Vancouver, BC, November.

Greene, Jennifer, Benjamin, Lehn, Goodyear, Leslie, and Lowe, Staci. (1999). The merits of mixing methods in

applied social research. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November.

Dissertation Title: Representational Form and Audience Understanding in Evaluation: Advancing Use and Engaging Postmodern Pluralism Building on previous research and representational experimentation in the fields of sociology, anthropology and evaluation, this multi-faceted qualitative study used the interaction between the presentation of evaluation findings and audience as the focal point to thoughtfully inform the practice of evaluation, and in particular, the possible link between representational format of findings and audience understanding and evaluation use. Dissertation committee: Jennifer Greene, Chair; Davydd Greenwood, Ritch Savin-Williams Areas of specialization and interest: • Evaluation and research methodology, specifically mixed-method, qualitative, interpretive, and participatory-

democratic designs for program evaluation and applied social and educational research. • Evaluation of large, national programs and systems, particularly government funded programs. • Creative formats for the representation of evaluation findings to diverse audiences. • Broadening Participation in STEM, STEM learning and teaching, Youth Media, Informal Science Education,

Afterschool education programs, Ethnography, Sociology, Education, Participatory Action Research, Family and Children’s Policy, Civic Leadership, Educational Evaluation, Evaluation Capacity Building, Youth Development, HIV/AIDS Prevention.

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