Susan H. Robbins
Dr. Susan Robbins is an independent consultant providing technical assistance related to evaluation design and implementation. Her primary focus areas are program evaluation in the
K-12, higher education, and mental health education sectors. Dr. Robbins specializes in providing practical, targeted information for program decision-making. She is skilled at translating assessment results into recommendations for actionable program improvements.
During her 20 year career as both an independent consultant and as an associate of various education and research organizations, Susan has participated in the design, management and implementation of numerous multi-method evaluation research projects. Representative evaluation projects include an evaluation of an Enhancing Education through Technology grant to a consortium of Delaware public and private schools, development of a master plan for on-going evaluation of a nursing education program, design and implementation of an evaluation of an undergraduate and graduate psychiatric-mental health nursing program, and an evaluation of information dissemination to community mental health centers to improve program-oriented consultation. Some of the organizations for which she has provided evaluation services include: Villanova University School of Nursing; the University of Michigan Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Program; Research for Better Schools in Philadelphia; the American Institutes for Research; the University of California at Los Angeles; and the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching.
As past-president of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (a regional affiliate of the American Evaluation Association), Susan coordinated all phases of conference activities for the 2006 EERS academic conference for evaluation professionals.
Susan earned a Doctorate in Sociology of Education and a Masters in Teacher Education at Stanford University. Her educational and evaluation pursuits are grounded in her experience with theory-based evaluation research and her experience as a K-6 teacher and university instructor.