Dr. Carl Summers is an independent consultant specializing in program evaluation and research methodology. His background spans the worlds of academia, evaluation consulting and public sector evaluation. He specializes in psychometrics, evaluation design, proposal writing and program evaluation. His portfolio of projects includes such diverse topic areas as high stakes testing, international program evaluation, health program evaluation including HIV/AIDS and alcohol abuse, and educational program effectiveness.  He writes a weekly commentary A Voter's Guide to Polictical Party Performance using official government and industrty statistics in teh online magazine www.outsidersdc.com.  

His early career was on the faculties of Utah State University, Ball State University and George Washington University where he taught statistics, research methods, psychological testing, business policy, human resource economics, and developmental psychology. He has published several times in peer reviewed journals and is the author of Behavioral Statistics: A comparison approach which will soon be released by Wadsworth Publishers.

His consulting career includes co-developing the U.S. State Department’s Office of Educational and Cultural Affairs Performance Measurement System, supervising the development of the U.S. Department of Defense Educational Activity’s high stakes history test, supervising the evaluation of the Minority AIDS Initiative of the Ryan White Care Act and serving as the research director of the Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Initiative.

Dr. Summers has earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Utah State University’s Research and Evaluation Methodology Program, a Master of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Science degree from the University of Utah in human resource management in economics. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and studied counseling psychology after completing his doctorate at Ball State University.