Dana Wanzer

I have been crazy busy with my first semester as an assistant professor of psychology in evaluation at University of Wisconsin-Stout, but I wanted to share with you an activity that I found very beneficial after our first exam in Introduction to Psychology. I have heard these called multiple things–post-mortem and wrappers are the two …

This blog is largely inspired by some recent conversations with colleagues (read below), the theme of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s 2019 conference of Bridges, and the blog post by Jade Malone about “un-boxing” evaluation in reference to the theme of the Australian Evaluation Society’s conference on Evaluation Un-Boxed. I’ve written previously about evaluation as one …

This year was jam-packed with excitement! Some of my highlights of 2018 are shared below. I got my first two publications! In a Survey Methods class in 2015, three other students and I did a survey project creating a scale measuring aesthetic experiences, or the experiences one has when viewing art. We built this scale …

As many of you are aware, I am teaching my first undergraduate-level course this semester. I have posted about how I didn’t realize how much work the syllabus and planning a course takes (blog post 1 and 2) as well as how I found teaching a remarkable way to improve my own skills (blog post 3). …

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I cancelled our Monday morning class. However, this would mean 3 weeks of not meeting in class given two Monday holidays this year, so I made the class an online one instead. I decided to have students take the outlines for their final papers, write up one paragraph …