Interdisciplinary Evaluation Science: Faculty and Staff

Sue Giancola is Senior Associate Director at the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. She has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in policy research, evaluation, and measurement. She also has degrees from the University of Virginia and Pennsylvania State University in engineering and management, respectively. She has 25 years of experience as an evaluator in both academia and private business, evaluating programs in education, human services, engineering, and health. Her career has focused on leveraging quality improvement and engineering design principles to improve program and policy evaluation. Her current research focuses on developing methodological processes to embed evaluation into programs, foster continuous improvement, base programmatic decisions on reliable and valid information, and properly interpret effectiveness and impact. Dr. Giancola has evaluated projects funded through the NIH, NSF, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of Education, as well as local, state, and foundation-funded programs. She is the author of Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development, available through SAGE publications, as well as Evaluation Matters, a training guide prepared for the US Department of Education. Dr Giancola is a member of the American Evaluation Association, American Educational Research Association, and Association for Clinical and Translational Science, and leads the National CTR Evaluators Network.