Staff
Dr. Rita O' Sullivan
ritao@email.unc.edu
Ed.D., Auburn
University,
1984.
Executive Director
- Evaluation,
Assessment &
Policy Connections
(EvAP); Associate
Professor, Educational
Evaluation and
Assessment,
UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Rita O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of Evaluation and Assessment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches graduate courses in Educational Program Evaluation, Case Study Methods, Research Design, Measurement, and Statistics. She is also Executive Director of Evaluation, Assessment, and Policy Connections (EvAP), an evaluation training unit she founded within the UNC School of Education that also conducts local, state and national evaluations. Dr. O’Sullivan has specialized in developing collaborative evaluation techniques that enhance evaluation capacity and utilization among educators and public service providers. She has successfully used collaborative evaluation approaches with education, community development, health, and family support programs in North Carolina, non-profit organizations in the southeastern states, as well as national program initiatives in education and community development. She is author of Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach (Sage, 2004) and senior author of Programs for At-Risk Student: A Guide to Evaluation (Corwin Press, 1993).
Among her evaluation training institutes, Dr. O’Sullivan recently traveled to the Virgin Islands (2007), Sudan (2006), Kazakhstan (2006), Guinea (2004), Brazil (2003), Siberia (2002), and Durban (2002) to work with evaluators representing the fields of education, health, social work, auditing, government service, agriculture, and environmental protection. In addition to her contributions to the field of evaluation via articles and presentations, Dr. O’Sullivan also served as Secretary/Treasurer of the American Evaluation Association from 1992-1997, was presented in 2001 the first lifetime Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, and in 2002 received the Ingle Service Award from the American Evaluation Association.
