Graduate Student ProfileI am a full-time Purdue staff employee managing a database and reporting tool for faculty activities called Digital Measures. I began my doctoral program in the University of Florida’s Higher Education Administration and Policy department, with a concentration in quantitative methods in the Research and Evaluation Methods department. I transferred my studies to Purdue. My dissertation project is to develop and validate a survey instrument to be administered to alumni of youth development organizations with the results to be used by organizational leaders to inform strategic decision-making.
Education Degree(s)
BS Agricultural Economics and Business University of Tennessee
MS Agricultural Economics Purdue University
Professional Activities
American Evaluation Association
Research Interest
Survey methodology, youth development organizations, quantitative methods, and data visualization
Thesis Title
Designing an Instrument to Measure Alumni Perceptions of Meaningful Factors of Youth Development Organizations
Advisors
Dr. Allen Talbert (chair)
Dr. Natalie Carroll
Dr. James Greenan
Dr. Aryn Dotterer