Bianca Montrosse:
Using Evaluation to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk and Diverse Populations
Bianca Montrosse is an advanced doctoral student in the Evaluation and Applied Methods program. Since beginning her training at Claremont Graduate University, Bianca has been acquiring hands-on experience designing, conducting, and managing evaluations in the education, health care, and drug rehabilitation sectors. All of her work continues to center on evaluations of interventions designed to improve outcomes for at-risk and diverse populations. Currently, she is completing a one-year pre-doctoral policy evaluation and research fellowship with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the US Department of Education funds. As part of this fellowship, she is receiving methodological and policy-relevant training required for national and statewide assessment and accountability studies.
Bianca is also working on designing her dissertation. Specifically, she hopes to utilize administrative data, collected as part of a large-scale North Carolina educational policy evaluation, to examine the impact of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on teacher training and qualifications and educational outcomes for special education students within the state.
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