Tiffany Smith Curriculum Vitae

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CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION: 1636 Nicholas Ln. Unit 2 Chippewa Falls, WI 54729

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EDUCATION: 2014 Ph. D., Educational Psychology and Research

Concentration: Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement Cognate: Communication Studies University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dissertation: Reflective Practice, Collaboration, and Stakeholder Communication: Where Does the Field of Evaluation Stand? Dissertation Chair: Gary Skolits, Ed. D.

2010 B.A., Double Major in Psychology and Philosophy

Magna cum laude University of Tennessee, Knoxville Honors Thesis: Free Will and True Love: Priming Effects on Relationship Preference Advisors: Michael Olson, Ph. D., & James McNulty, Ph. D.

EMPLOYMENT: Fall 2014-Present University of Wisconsin, Stout Assistant Professor of Psychology College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences Fall 2014 Courses: Undergraduate Psychological Research Methods Graduate Foundations of Evaluation Research

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Summer 2014 CITI Ethics Training for Human Subjects Research: Completed the online

certification program (renewal) for ethical practice in human subjects research sponsored by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

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Summer 2013 Summer Teaching Institute: Volunteered to assist with and attend the Summer Teaching Institute conducted by the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center. This institute was designed to help faculty teach through use of active learning, with technology and non-tech means, both online and in classrooms, to engage students in a learning community, and to create courses that bring about student engagement and better student learning outcomes.

Summer 2013 Certificate in Grant Writing and Proposal Development: Completed a series of

workshops and online trainings offered by the University of Tennessee’s Office of Research on the topics of grant writing, proposal development, and ethics. Completed all requirements necessary and received a certificate in Grant Writing and Proposal Development.

View Grant Writing Certificate by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/59x2e32ca10prhp/Grant%20Certificate%20UTK.pdf

Summer 2013 Atlas.ti Basics: Participated in a two-hour workshop that provided an overview

of the software's features, including those that facilitate project management and collaboration. Atlas.ti was also compared with QDA Miner. Conducted by Ann Bennett at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Summer 2013 CITI Ethics Training for Responsible Conduct of Research: Completed the online

certification program for responsible conduct of research sponsored by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

Fall 2012 American Evaluation Association Preconference Workshop: Participated in a one

day workshop sponsored by the American Evaluation Association in Minneapolis, MN. The workshop was titled “Advanced Concepts, Methods, and Problems”. This workshop was taught by Dr. Michael Scriven.

Fall 2012 American Evaluation Association Preconference Workshop: Participated in a one

day workshop sponsored by the American Evaluation Association in Minneapolis, MN. The workshop was titled “Advanced Topics in Systems Thinking: Applications for Evaluation”. This workshop was taught by Dr. Meg Hargreaves and Dr. Jan Noga.

Fall 2012 Best Practices in Teaching Program: Participated in a seven session workshop

program that provided additional training to graduate students and future/new faculty members in teaching-related issues. Example topics were mentorship, course design, diversity in the classroom, classroom ethics and civility, and constructing a teaching portfolio. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a certificate for their teaching portfolios. Conducted by Dr. Joy DeSensi, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.


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Fall 2012 Building the NSF Grant Proposal: Participated in a three-hour workshop that

focused on how to interact with the National Science Foundation and proven techniques for writing effectively for each section of the NSF proposal. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Spring 2012 Career Development Grants for Pre- and Postdocs: Participated in a two-hour

workshop that focused on the different types of grants that pre- and postdocs can apply for. The session focused on where and how to apply for such grants. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Spring 2012 Success with Proposal Development: Participated in a one-hour training session

to prepare principal investigators (PIs) to successfully write grant proposals. Particular attention was paid to the characteristics of a good proposal as well as the proposal selection process. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Fall 2011 American Evaluation Association Preconference Workshop: Participated in a two

day workshop sponsored by the American Evaluation Association in Anaheim, CA. The workshop was titled “Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use.” This workshop was taught by Dr. Michael Quinn Patton.

Fall 2011 TERA-PAMS Proposal Preparation: Participated in a two-hour training session to

prepare principal investigators (PIs) to use the Tennessee Electronic Research Administration (TERA) system. The module used for proposal creation, routing/approval, and award maintenance is Proposal and Award Maintenance System (PAMS). Sponsored by the University of Tennessee Office of Research, Knoxville, TN.

Fall 2011 Writing Successful Grants, Part I: The first in a two-part series. This two-hour

workshop covered basic principles of good grant writing with special attention being paid to the perspectives of grant reviewers and how to write in ways that will meet their expectations. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Fall 2011 Writing Successful Grants, Part II: The second in a two-part series. This two-

hour workshop covered basic principles of good grant writing with special attention being paid to the perspectives of grant reviewers and how to write in ways that will meet their expectations. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Fall 2011 Finding Funding: Participated in a two-hour workshop that focused on the use

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Grants.gov to help find appropriate sources of funding for specific research interests. Conducted by Dr. Bob Porter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Summer 2011 American Evaluation Association Summer Institute: Participated in a three day

workshop sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA. The workshops included: Evaluator Competencies, Evaluation in the Real World Case Studies, Using the Guiding Principles to Improve Your Practice, Developmental Evaluation, and Handling Data: From Logic Model to Final Report.

Fall 2010 QDA Miner Training: Participated in an hour long training session on qualitative

data analysis using QDA Miner sponsored by the University of Tennessee. This session detailed how to import or enter text, search for keywords, code blocks of text, find patterns of codes, calculate inter-coder reliability, compare groups and export your findings to other packages. This was conducted by the Office of Information Technology at the University of Tennessee.

Fall 2010 SPSS Training Workshop: Participated in a three-hour training session on data

management and statistical analyses with IBM SPSS v. 18 conducted by Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Fall 2010 NIH Ethics Training for Human Subjects Research: Completed the online

certification for ethical practice in human subjects research sponsored by the National Institute of Health (NIH)

Fall 2010 CITI Ethics Training for Human Subjects Research: Completed the online

certification program for ethical practice in human subjects research sponsored by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

View IRB certificate by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h81otkabiqe7ysc/Smith_Tiffany_IRB_Complete.p

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INTERNSHIPS: Spring 2013-July 2014 University of Tennessee’s Teaching and Learning Center and Institute for

Reflective Practice Supervisors: John Peters, Ed. D., Taimi Olsen, Ph. D., & David Schumann, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Evaluation of the consultation process at the TennTLC, assistance with a nursing program evaluation, literature review, instrument development and implementation, data entry, codebook and database creation, psychometric


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analysis (including Factor Analyses), writing and submitting IRB applications,. 100 hours during the Spring Semester, continued PRN.

Summer 2012 University of Tennessee Student Counseling Center

Supervisor: Connie Briscoe, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Analyzing and writing yearly and quarterly reports for four student surveys sent to undergraduates and graduates at the University of Tennessee, writing and submitting an IRB application for the analysis of evaluation data for a suicide prevention training program. 100 hours during the Summer Semester.

Summer 2012 Knoxville Family Justice Center

Supervisor: Amy Dilworth, MS.

Duties Included: Revising the KFJC intake assessment using the Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) software in order to meet the needs of the grant funders, clients, volunteers, and agencies; working with the executive director and program manager to produce a capacity building workshop in which participants were taught more about evaluation and the benefit of communication in organizations. 100 hours during the Summer Semester.

Fall 2011 Knoxville Family Justice Center

Supervisor: Amy Dilworth, MS.

Duties Included: Revising the KFJC client satisfaction survey to meet the needs of the grant funders as well as make it more utilizable by each agency in the center; working with Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) software and creating an intake form with branching questions to make it more efficient for the center to gain information about clients in a timely manner; working with the Knoxville Police Department and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in order to merge client data regarding domestic violence so as to more accurately represent the number of clients served. 100 hours during the Fall Semester.

RESEARCH/EVALUATION EXPERIENCE: Fall 2012-July 2014 Graduate Research Assistant – The University of Tennessee Center for

Educational Leadership Supervisors: Betty Sue Sparks, M. S., SPHR, Autumn Cyprès, Ph. D.

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Grant-based program evaluation, literature reviews and literature searches, database creation and management, data analysis and interpretation, and report writing. Approximately 20 hours per week, paid.

Summer 2013 Evaluator and Co-Principle Investigator – Evaluation of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University Common Curriculum

Duties Included: Mixed methods evaluation of the Common Curriculum at CSBSJU as part of a

larger report prepared by Dr. Phil Kramer, including both quantitative analysis of student transcripts and one-on-one interviews with students.

Fall 2012-May 2013 Evaluator and Co-Principle Investigator – Wellstone-Barlow Mental Health

Initiative.

Duties Included: Evaluation proposal creation, logic model development, survey and interview protocol creation, stakeholder collaboration.

Fall 2012 Practical Experience with the Tennessee College Access and Success Network Supervisor: Gary J. Skolits, Ed. D.

Duties Included: Team meetings and collaboration with the TCASN staff, conducting interviews with program staff. 20 hours during the semester.

Spring 2012 Practical Experience with the University of Tennessee First Year Programs Supervisor: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Focus Group attendance and transcription, qualitative coding, and team meetings and collaboration. 20 hours during the semester.

Fall 2011 Assessment for the PEER Program. University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Supervisor: Gary Skolits, Ed. D.

Duties Included: Stakeholder meetings and collaboration, logic model creation, developing a focus group protocol, and creating a survey instrument to assess the outcomes presented in the logic model. PRN during the semester.

Fall 2011 Practical Experience with the University of Tennessee Counseling Center.

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Duties Included: Focus Group attendance and recording, qualitative coding, and evaluation report writing. 20 hours during the semester.

Fall 2010-Summer 2012 Graduate Research Assistant – The University of Tennessee Graduate School

of Medicine. Supervisors: Dr. James Neutens, M. D., Dr. William Metheny, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Statistical and methodological research consultation, teaching research and statistics and creating a blanket syllabus and set of learning objectives for teaching statistics in Graduate Medical Education, database construction, data entry, statistical analyses, interpretation and preparing of results, developing surveys, and formal editing of biomedical research manuscripts. 20 hours per week, paid (Fall 2010-Spring 2011, 10 hours, paid).

Fall 2010-Fall 2012 Student Researcher – The University of Tennessee, Psychology Department.

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Olson, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data based on previous Undergraduate Honors Thesis. New projects were put forth in order to assess the research question, does belief/priming regarding free will or determinism effect participants’ attitudes and beliefs about relationships? PRN.

Spring 2011 Practical Experience with the University of Tennessee Student Success Center. Supervisor: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Focus Group attendance and recording, qualitative coding, and evaluation report writing. 20 hours during the semester.

Fall 2010-Summer 2011 Graduate Research Assistant – The University of Tennessee, Educational

Psychology Department. Supervisor: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Literature reviews, article summaries, literature searches, survey development, grant writing and editing, report editing, focus group/interview facilitation, qualitative report writing, online survey creation/piloting/dissemination. 10 hours per week, paid.

Fall 2007-May 2010 Undergraduate Research Assistant – The University of Tennessee, Psychology

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Duties Included: Developed a senior thesis project investigating the role of free will and determinism on relationship preference. Submitted and approved by the Institutional Review Board. Personally collected data for seventy-five participants, analyzed data, and have written and defended a Senior Thesis based on the results.

Worked on a project with Dr. Laura Widman titled, "Inside the Minds of Sex Offenders: Illuminating the role of implicit rape attitudes in sexual offending", a validation study for a novel implicit attitude assessment in a sample of convicted sexual offenders, community men, and college students. Lead research assistant on dissertation project.

Worked on a project with Dr. Caroline Mann titled, “In a stranger’s shoes: Reducing mental illness stigma through perspective-taking”, a study that assessed the efficacy of a perspective-taking protocol on attitudes toward individuals with various psychological disorders and explored the underlying theoretical mechanisms. Lead research assistant and collaborator on dissertation project. Presented a subsequent poster at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2009 conference.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES: My Teaching Philosophy Statement can be found by clicking:

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TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE – Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Educational Research

Fundamentals. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Gary Skolits, Ed. D.

Duties Included:

Editing exams and exam reviews, editing and formatting PowerPoints, editing rubrics and assignments, grading exams and assisting students with research proposals and concepts covered in class regarding research design, reliability and validity, and other fundamentals of applied research. Taught lectures on APA formatting, qualitative research. View APA Activity by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/76ykaetdp3usr9h/Lorem%20Ipsum%20APA%20Activity%20TLS.pdf


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Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Course in Audience Analysis. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Lisa Fall, Ph. D.

Duties Included:

Assignment creation, assistance with learning activities, exam creation, exam review assistance, and assistance with trend analysis proposals.

Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Educational Research

Fundamentals. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Gary Skolits, Ed. D.

Duties Included:

Editing exams and exam reviews, grading exams and assisting students with research proposals and concepts covered in class regarding research design, reliability and validity, and other fundamentals of applied research. Also taught lectures on the scales of measurement and the types of reliability and validity.

Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Survey Research. The University of

Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph. D. Duties Included:

Grading group projects and assisting students with the concepts covered in survey research design, methodology, and stem and response wording. Also, created and co-taught a lecture on quantitative methodology. View Commonly Used Statistics in Survey Research handout by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lj5a4u1trpb8ksh/Commonly%20Used%20Statistics%20in%20Survey%20Research%20FINAL.pdf

Summer 2012 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Advanced Seminar in Evaluation I.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Gary Skolits, Ed. D. Duties Included:

Assistance with lecture and activity modification and creation and assisting in adapting the course to better suit a small population in an online environment.

Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Program Evaluation II. The

University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Gary Skolits, Ed. D. Duties Included: Grading exams and assisting students with evaluation projects and concepts

covered in class regarding Utilization Focused Evaluation during the course of the semester. Also created and taught a lecture covering Michael Patton’s


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Developmental Evaluation as well as Systems Theory as it applies to Evaluation.

View Developmental Evaluation and Systems Lecture notes by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ljnkpeg0e25pc6r/Systems%20and%20Developmental%20Evaluation.pdf

Summer 2011 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Course in Educational Research

Fundamentals. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph. D.

Duties Included:

Grading assignments and assisting students with projects and concepts during the course of the semester. Also co-taught a class entitled "Choosing the Correct Analysis" that focused on data cleaning, qualitative, and quantitative data.

TEACHING WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE – Summer 2012 Co-Taught a Capacity Building Workshop. Knoxville Family Justice Center,

Knoxville. Supervisor: Amy Dilworth, M. S. Duties Included:

Creation of a PowerPoint presentation and development of capacity building activities, development of an assessment/evaluation survey, co-taught advocates and other family violence professionals about communication and evaluation and their role in improving the center and its interworkings. View workshop presentation by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n51ay69upm5076e/FJC%20Capacity%20Building%20Workshop.pdf

Summer 2012 Co-taught Fellowship Research Week. The University of Tennessee Medical

Center, Knoxville. Supervisor: William Metheny, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Curriculum, syllabus, and activity development, PowerPoint creation and editing, creation of evaluation materials, co-taught: Biostatistics Overview & Developing the Research Question using the FINER test; Research Designs, Measurement of Variables, & Power Analysis; The Importance of IRB &Preparing for Statistical Consultation; Commonly Used Statistics I: Parametric Statistics; Commonly Used Statistics II: Odds, Relative Risk, Sensitivity & Specificity; Advanced Statistical Methodology: Survival, Equivalence, Meta-Analysis; and How to Present at a National Meeting.


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View Fellow’s Week syllabus by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i1hv00foxmqmmru/Fellows%20Research%20Week%20Syllabus%20FINAL.pdf

Spring 2012 Faculty Development Workshop. The University of Tennessee Medical Center,

Knoxville. Supervisor: William Metheny, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Assisting faculty members via onsite consultation regarding research and statistical design, analysis, and results write-ups.

Fall 2011 – Spring 2012 Co-taught 7 Lecture Series for Practitioners and Residents (including: Internal

Medicine, Nursing, OBGYN, Pathology, Pharmacy, Radiology, Transitional Year). The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville. Supervisor: William Metheny, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Curriculum development, lecture creation and editing, activity development, homework creation, teaching topics such as: Biostatistics Overview, Developing the Research Question Using the FINER Test, Research Design, Measurement of Variables, How to Interpret Commonly Used Statistics in Medical Research, Preparing for Statistical Consultation, Database Management, identifying medical research designs, how to read and interpret common statistics in medicine, how to calculate and interpret measures of sensitivity and specificity.

Summer 2011 Co-taught Fellowship Research Week. The University of Tennessee Medical

Center, Knoxville. Supervisor: William Metheny, Ph. D.

Duties Included: Curriculum development, PowerPoint creation and editing, activity development, co-taught: Comparing Research Designs (Observational Research, Cohort, Case Control, Longitudinal, Cross-sectional, Case Study), Statistics for Clinicians I (Parametric), Preparing for Statistical Consultation (Data Management).

EVALUATION AND GRANT REPORTS: Brinkley, K., Smith, T., Schumann, D., Olsen, T., & Bigler, B. A. (2014). Teaching and Learning Center

Consultation Evaluation. For the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center, University of Tennessee.


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Schumann, D., Brinkley, K., Seeley, J., & Smith, T. (2013). Nursing Online Ph. D.: A Programmatic Assessment. For Dr. Ken Phillips, Associate Dean of the Online Nursing Ph. D. Program, University of Tennessee.

Barlow, P. B., & Smith, T. L. (2013). Final Report on Transcript Analysis for the College of Saint Benedict

and Saint John’s University. For Dr. Phil Kramer, The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. (no project #, 1 table, 1 figure, 10 pages).

Smith, T., & Morrow, J.A. (2011). UT Counseling Center VolAware focus group results – Native American

students. For Dr. Connie Briscoe, Assistant Director of Student Counseling, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 5 tables; 3 appendices; no references; 17 pages).

Morrow, J.A., Smith, T., Daulton, B., & Skolits, G. (2011). UT Counseling Center VolAware focus group

results – Resident Assistants. For Dr. Connie Briscoe, Assistant Director of Student Counseling, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 5 tables; 3 appendices; no references; 17 pages).

Smith, T., Morrow, J.A., & Skolits, G., (2011). A Follow-up Evaluation of the Love Your Money

Online Investor Education Program. For Dr. Dena Wise, University of Tennessee Extension. (no Project #; 16 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 51 pages).

Smith, T., Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Black, J., Barlow, P., Cisney-Booth, A., & Kaesbauer, S. (2011). UT Student Focus Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 4 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 16 pages).

Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Barlow, P., Black, J., Cisney-Booth, A., Kaesbauer, S., & Smith, T. (2011).

University of Tennessee Student Affairs Focus Groups – Spring 2011. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; no tables; 4 appendices; no references; 16 pages).

Smith, T., Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Barlow, P., Cisney-Booth, A., & Kaesbauer, S. (2011). UT Faculty Focus

Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 4 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 14 pages).

Cisney-Booth, A., Skolits, G., Morrow, J.A., Kaesbauer, S., Barlow, P., & Smith, T. (2011). UT Faculty Focus


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Barlow, P., Skolits, G., Morrow, J.A., Smith, T., Kaesbauer, S., & Cisney-Booth, A. (2011). UT Staff Focus Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 4 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 15 pages).

Black, J., Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Kaesbauer, S., Smith, T., Cisney-Booth, A., & Barlow, P. (2011). UT Staff

Focus Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 4 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 15 pages).

Kaesbauer, S., Black, J., Morrow, J.A., Barlow, P., Cisney-Booth, A., Smith, T., & Skolits, G. (2011). UT

Student Focus Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 5 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 15 pages).

Black, J., Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Cisney-Booth, A., Smith, T., Kaesbauer, S., & Barlow, P. (2011). UT

Student Focus Group Results. For Ms. Melissa Shivers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Tennessee. (no Project #; 4 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 15 pages).

Smith, T., Morrow, J.A., Barlow, P., Cisney-Booth, A., Black, J., & Skolits, G., (2011). Evaluation of the Love

Your Money online investor education program – A qualitative investigation. For Dr. Dena Wise, University of Tennessee Extension. (no Project #; 14 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 60 pages).

Black, J., Morrow, J.A., Cisney-Booth, A., & Smith, T. (2011). Financial attitudes of North

Carolina State University Students – Fall 2010. For Dr. Carolyn Bird, North Carolina State University. (no Project #; 6 tables; 2 appendices; no references; 30 pages).

Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Black, J., Cisney-Booth, A., Smith, T., & Kaesbauer, S. (2011).

Evaluation of the Love Your Money online investor education program – Fall 2010 data. For Dr. Dena Wise, University of Tennessee Extension. (no Project #; 10 tables; 3 appendices; no references; 46 pages).

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS: Smith, T. L., Skolits, G., & Barlow, P. B. (2014, October). Reflective Practice: Where does the Field of

Evaluation Stand?. Multipaper presentation accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Denver, CO.

Smith, T. L., Peters, J., Skolits, G., & Barlow, P. B. (2013, October). Demystifying Reflective Practice: Using

the DATA Model to Enhance Evaluators Professional Activities. Expert lecture presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Washington, DC.

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Brinkley, K. E., Smith, T. L. (2013, October). Planning a Comprehensive Assessment of Instructional Consultation in Teaching & Learning Centers. Poster presented the annual meeting of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Assessment Institute, Indianapolis, IN.

Morrow, J.A., Skolits, G., Barlow, P., Cisney-Booth, & Smith, T. L. (2013, October). Preparing to Go on the

Job Market: Strategies for Academic and Non-Academic Job Searches. Multipaper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Washington, DC.

Smith, T. L., Barlow, P. B., Heidel, R. E., & Metheny, W. (2012, October). Application of Assessment and

Evaluation Data to Improve a Dynamic Graduate Medical Education Curriculum. Multipaper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Minneapolis, MN.

View this presentation by clicking: http://www.slideshare.net/tiffany7001/application-of-assessment-and-evaluation-data-to-improve-a-dynamic-graduate-medical-education-curriculum-smith-et-al-2012-27501487

Cisney-Booth, A., & Smith, T. L. (2012, October). Increasing Evaluation Capacity in a Family Justice

Center: Changing Stakeholder Perceptions of Evaluation within a Complex System. Multipaper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Minneapolis, MN.

View this presentation by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3frsb05xavhlpx2/CApacity%20Building%20AEA%202012.pptx

Barlow, P. B., Smith, T. L., Heidel, R., & Metheny, W. (2012, October). Methods for Developing

Assessment Instruments to Generate Useful Data in the Presence of Vague Course Objectives. Multipaper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Minneapolis, MN.

Snell, P. D., AbdurRaqeeb, O., Smith, T. L., Huckabee, M. M., & Keenum, A. J. (2012, October).

Survey of Patient Knowledge of Osteopathic Physicians and Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy. Poster presented at the 117th Annual Osteopathic Medical Conference and Exposition, San Diego, California.

Mann, C. E., Olson, M., & Smith, T. (2012, June). Comparing efficacy of a first-person narrative

intervention to reduce prejudice toward persons with mental illness vs. persons with AIDS. Poster presented at the 5th International Stigma Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

Mahlow, W. J., Shah, U. L., Hirsh, J. B., Cox, J. W., Barlow, P., Smith, T. L., & Wortham, D. C. (2012, May).

Secured versus Unsecured Implantable Pulse Generators: Comparison of Pocket Complication and Lead Dislodgement Rates. Poster presented at the Heart Rhythm Society's 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA.

Smith, T. L., & Olson, M. (2012, March). Is There a Relationship Between Belief in Free Will and Views on

Romantic Relationships? Poster presented at the University of Tennessee 8th Annual College of


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Education, Health, and Human Sciences Graduate Student Advisory Board Research Colloquium, Knoxville, TN.

Hopkins K., Van Nes J., Zite, N., Barlow, P. B., Lockett, A., & Smith, T. L. (March, 2012). Robotics

Surgery: Changing Resident Operative Education and Experience. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (APGO & CREOG). Orlando, Florida.

Zite N, Hopkins K., Van Nes J., Barlow, P. B., Lockett, A., & Smith, T. L. (March, 2012). Robotic Surgery Impact on Resident Hysterectomy Experience: A Survey of Residency Coordinators and Directors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (APGO & CREOG). Orlando, Florida.

Van Nes J, Hopkins K., Zite, N., Barlow, P. B., Lockett, A., & Smith, T. L. (March, 2012). Survey-

based Research in OB/GYN-Are We Getting the Data We Need to Better Educate Our Residents? Poster presented at the annual meeting of Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (APGO & CREOG). Orlando, Florida.

Smith, T. L., Skolits, G. (2011, November). An Exploration of Fundamental Valuing: Ethics as a Pivotal and

Ineludible Criterion in Evaluation Practice. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Anaheim, CA.

View this presentation by clicking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2eenewrm3ae7usc/Ethics%20AEA%20Final%202011.pdf

Barlow, P. B., Heidel, R., & Smith, T. L. (2011, November). New Venues for Practical Experience in

Evaluation: Cultivation of Evaluator Competencies within a Graduate School of Medicine. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Anaheim, CA.

Skolits, G., Morrow, J. A., Barlow, P. B., Cisney-Booth, A., Heidel, R., Lenard, B., Sall, A. B., Smith, T. L.

(2011, November). Helping New Evaluators Conceptualize, Manage, and Reflect Upon Initial Evaluation Experiences: Easing the Transition from Classroom to Practice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Anaheim, CA.

Smith, T. L., Morrow, J. A., Skolits, G. (2011, November). Evaluating an Online Financial Education

Program: A Description of the Love Your Money Evaluation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Anaheim, CA.

Mahlow, W.J., Shah, U.L., Hirsh, J.B., Cox, J.W. Jr., Barlow, P.B., Smith, T.L., Heidel, R., & Wortham, D.C.

(2011, May). Does Securing The Implantable Pulse Generator To The Pectoralis Fascia Affect Complication Rates? Poster presented to The Heart Rhythm Society’s 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions. San Francisco, CA.


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Mahlow, W.J., Shah, U.L., Hirsh, J.B., Cox, J.W. Jr., Smith, T.L., Barlow, P.B., Heidel, R., & Wortham, D.C. (2011, May). Late Complications Following Pacemaker or Defibrillator Implantation: An Eight Year Single Center Experience. Poster presented to The Heart Rhythm Society’s 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions. San Francisco, CA.

Barlow, P.B. Cisney-Booth, A.M., Smith, T. L., & Morrow, J.A. (2011, March). Strengthening the Social

Network: Religiosity and Spirituality in First-Year Perceptions of Belongingness. Poster presented at the University of Tennessee 7th Annual College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences Graduate Student Advisory Board Research Colloquium, Knoxville, TN.

Smith, T., & Olson, M. (2010, March). Effects of free will and determinism priming on relationship

strategies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Exhibition of undergraduate research and creative achievement (EURēCA). Knoxville, TN.

Smith, T., & Olson, M. (2010, March). Effects of free will and determinism priming on relationship

strategies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA). Chattanooga, TN.

Mann, C.E., Olson, M., & Smith, T. (2009, February). In a stranger’s shoes: The role of perspective-

taking in reducing mental illness stigma. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). Tampa, FL.

INVITED MANUSCRIPTS: Barlow, P. B., Smith, T. L., & Skolits, G. (2014). Five strategies for successful assessment in graduate

medical education. World Medical and Health Policy, (6)1, 51-62.

PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS: Asif, I. M., Johnson, S., Schmieg, J., Smith, T., Ashwin, L. R., Harmon, K. G., Salemo, J. C., &

Drexner, J. A. (2014) The psychological impact of cardiovascular screening: The athlete’s perspective. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 1-6.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION: Smith, T. L., & Skolits, G. J. (Under Review). Toward a Theoretical Framework for Reflective Practice in

Program Evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation. Smith, T. L., Peters, J. M., Skolits, G. J., Barlow, P. B. (Revise and Resubmit). Demystifying reflective

practice: Using the DATA model to enhance evaluators’ professional activities. Evaluation and Program Planning.



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Brinkley, K. E., Schumann, D., Smith, T. L., Bigler, B. A. (2014, June). A program evaluation process to

measure consultation effectiveness. Manuscript in preparation for submission to the annual publication of To Improve the Academy.

Brinkley, K. E., Smith, T. L. (2014). One faculty at a time: An assessment of instructional consultation

services. Manuscript in preparation for submission to The Journal of Higher Education. Barlow, P. B., Smith, T. L., Heidel, R. E., Metheny, W. (2013, September). Structuring a week-long

biostatistics and clinical epidemiology workshop for sub- specialty fellows. Manuscript rejected from the Journal of Academic Medicine, under revision.

Smith, T. L., Skolits, G. J., & Varga, M. A. (2012, October). Encouraging ethical thinking in evaluation:

What are the foundations for ethical decision making? Manuscript rejected from the American Journal of Evaluation, under revision.

GRANT EXPERIENCE: Cyprès, A., (PI). “Principal in Residence Project.” TNLEAD Leadership Replication Grant. April 2013.

Assisted Dr. Autumn Cyprès in writing grant application. Wise, D., (PI). “Love Your Money.” FINRA Investor Education Foundation. March 2011. Assisted Dr.

Jennifer Morrow (project evaluator) with creating the evaluation plan for the grant project.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR SOCIETIES: 2014-Present American Psychological Association 2011-Present American Evaluation Association, University of Tennessee

Topical Interest Groups: Collaborative, participatory, and empowerment; Evaluation use; Organizational learning and evaluation capacity building; Systems in evaluation

2009-2010 Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology, University of Tennessee 2009-2010 Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society, University of Tennessee 2008-2009 Society for Personality and Social Psychology PROFESSIONAL SERVICE



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2014 Proposal Reviewer for Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation; Teaching of Evaluation; Research on Evaluation; Graduate Student and New Evaluator; and Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Groups for the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association in October.

2013 Proposal reviewer for the Evaluation Use and Collaborative, Participatory, and

Empowerment Topical Interest Groups for the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association in October.

2012-2013 Member of the Board of Advisors for the Wellstone-Barlow Mental Health Initiative. 2012 Proposal reviewer for the Graduate Student and New Evaluator Topical Interest Group for the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association in October. 2011 Proposal reviewer for the Systems Theory Special Interest Group for the annual meeting

of the American Educational Research Association in April.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

Advanced Reflective Practice Educational Research Fundamentals*

Advanced Seminar in Evaluation I* Facilitating Group Change in Educational Settings

Advanced Seminar in Evaluation II Modes of Action Research

Applied Statistics I Organizational and Small Group Communication

Applied Statistics II Program Evaluation I

Applied Statistics III Program Evaluation II *

Classroom Measurement Psychometric Theory and Methods

Communication Management Qualitative Research

Critical Readings on Reflective Practice and Communication in Evaluation

Reflective Practice

Directed Readings for Ethics in Evaluation Survey Research*

*Courses in which I have also been a Teaching Assistant

COMPUTER SKILLS:

OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE – Microsoft Excel



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Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint WordPress

DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE – ATLAS.ti QDA Miner Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) SPSS

SURVEY DESIGN SOFTWARE – MediaLab Psychdata.net Qualtrics Zoomerang



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REFERENCES: Gary Skolits, Ed. D. Director of the Institute for Assessment and Evaluation Assistant Professor of Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 Office Phone: (865)974-2777 Cell Phone: (865)437-7079

Email: [email protected]

John Peters, Ed. D. Director of the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center Institute for Reflective Practice Assistant Professor of Adult Learning Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 Office Phone: (865)974-8145 Email: [email protected]

Autumn Cyprès, Ph. D. Professor Educational Leadership Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA 23284 Office Phone: (804)828-1940 Email: [email protected]

Betty Sue Sparks, M. S., SPHR Director of the Center for Educational Leadership Cornerstone Principal in Residence Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 Cell Phone: (865)679-0563 Email: [email protected]

Jennifer A. Morrow, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 Office Phone: (865)974-6117 Cell Phone: (865)235-9359 Email: [email protected]

William P. Metheny, Ph. D. Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical and Dental Education Graduate School of Medicine University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37920 Office Phone: (865)305-9339 Email: [email protected]


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