1. Leslie Karn Goodyear
Education Development Center
43 Foundry Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453
lgoodyear@edc.org
617-618-2354
EDUCATION Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca, New York
Ph.D., January 2001
Program Evaluation and Planning
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca, New York
Master of Science, May 1997
Program Evaluation and Planning
Department of Human Service Studies
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, May 1988
SELECTED EVALUATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Education Development Center, Newton, MA 2003 – present
Learning and Teaching Division
Principal Research Scientist
- On leave to NSF from 2009-2011.
- Principal Investigator for multiple large and small evaluation and evaluation capacity building projects such as
evaluation of Broadening Participation in Computing –Alliances program for NSF; Adobe Youth Voices, Adobe,
Inc.’s signature international philanthropy initiative; Teen Science Café Network, an NSF funded project; STEM
Guides, an NSF funded project; Illinois 21st
Century Community Learning Centers, funded by the Illinois State
Board of Education; and technical assistance and evaluation capacity building for the C.S. Mott Foundation and
Noyce Foundation-funded State Afterschool STEM initiative.
- Conceptualize, write and disseminate evaluation and research briefs, article and books to diverse practitioner and
research audiences; coordinate presentations at national conferences, including AEA, CREA, EES and AERA.
- Serve as evaluation design consultant to other EDC projects as needed.
- Lead Evaluation community and capacity building efforts within EDC.
- From 2003 – 2008, led research and evaluation technical assistance for National Science Foundation-funded
Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Learning Resource Center, which
provided services to over 100 projects nationwide.
National Science Foundation January 2009 – December 2011
Program Director, Lifelong Learning Cluster
Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Environments
Directorate of Education and Human Resources
- Responsible for granting funds and setting policy for the Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL), the
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) and the Promoting Research and
Innovation for Methodologies in Evaluation (PRIME) programs. Managed a portfolio of projects totaling
approximately $15 million. Responsibilities included contributing to the development of program policies and
solicitations, convening experts for peer review panels, writing review analyses, making funding decisions for
projects averaging $3 million each, and grants management for funded projects.
- Led and coordinated evaluation initiatives for the Division. Facilitate other Program Directors to determine scope
and focus of program level evaluations for the five programs housed in the Division. Developed statements of work
and contracted the appropriate evaluation expertise to design and implement the evaluation. Worked with others in
the Directorate and Agency who conduct and manage program evaluations to ensure quality control. Managed
evaluation contracts for the Division, totaling more than $13 Million.
- Upon returning to EDC, regularly invited to serve on review panels, attend and present at thought leader meetings
at NSF.
City Year, Inc., Boston, MA 2002 – 2003
National Director of Evaluation
- Oversaw evaluation efforts for City Year’s 13-site national network of programs.

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- Supervised $2 million Evidence of Impact studies, comprised of contracted four-year studies targeting impact on
alumni and outcomes of corporate and service partnerships.
- Designed evaluation and results-based monitoring systems that met City Year’s site and national information needs
for reporting and to guide programmatic decision-making.
Intercultural Center for Research in Education, Arlington, MA 2001 – 2002
Senior Evaluation Associate
Conducted evaluations of school reform initiatives in the Boston Public Schools.
Harvard Family Research Project, Cambridge, MA 2000 –2001
Managing editor and research associate.
- Managing editor of national quarterly newsletter, The Evaluation Exchange, with readership of over 10,000
evaluators, practitioners, funders, academics and policy makers.
- Research associate on national-level meta-analytic research project directed at understanding the state of the art in
program evaluation in the out-of-school time field.
New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children, Ithaca, NY 1999 – 2001
Contracted program evaluator
Designed and carried out mixed-method evaluation of program’s federally funded CoalitioNet project.
American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC 1998 – 1999
Contracted program evaluator
Co-designed and conducted a mixed-method evaluation of the AERA Grants Program, assessing the extent to which the
program reached its goal of encouraging the educational research community to conduct high quality, policy- and
practice-relevant research using large-scale federal databases.
DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY 1997
Contracted program evaluator
Worked with Historical Society staff to design and implement an evaluation of Phase I of the Discovering Local History
Dramatically project.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1997
Contracted program evaluator
Co-designed and conducted program review of the Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office.
Cornell University Family Life Development Center, Ithaca, NY 1996
Contracted program evaluator
Conducted literature review to inform evaluation of Cornell Cooperative Extension home visiting programs.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1995 – 1996
Contracted program evaluator
Co-designed and implemented mixed-method evaluation of new High School Science curriculum.
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 1995
Contracted program evaluator
Designed and conducted a participatory case study evaluation of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Talking With Kids
About HIV/AIDS Parent HIV/AIDS Education Project in New York City.
PROGRAM EXPERIENCE:
Sexual Violence Center, Minneapolis MN 1989 – 1994
Director of Educational and Fundraising Canvass
- Raised $350,000 annually through door-to-door outreach to support rape crisis counseling and educational
programs.
- Supervised field managers and canvassers, coordinated Canvass operations, payroll, budget management,
recruitment and ongoing training of canvassers, and program development.
- Assisted agency staff within the organization; supervised ten volunteers’ case consultations; answered crisis calls as
needed and participated as a member of the program staff in the development and implementation of SVC’s long
term program objectives.
Minnesota AIDS Project, Minneapolis, MN 1988 – 1989, 1992

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Outreach Educator
Targeted injecting drug users and their partners as a member of first HIV/AIDS prevention outreach team in Minnesota
directed at this population. Outreach included talking to people on the street, in shelters and in bars about clean needle
use, risk reduction and safer sex.
DISSERTATION GRANTS
Cornell University College of Human Ecology Graduate Fellowship 1999 – 2000
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Johnson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island 2005 – 2012
Review and provide feedback on dissertation proposals for the department of Educational Leadership of the Graduate
School of Education. Lecture each semester on evaluation issues and methods.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR 2014 – 2017
American Journal of Evaluation
SECTION EDITOR
American Journal of Evaluation, Ethical Challenges Section 2010 - 2013
EXTERNAL REVIEWER
American Journal of Evaluation, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2004 – Present
Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication.
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, Canadian Evaluation Society 2006 – Present
Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication.
Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier 2007 - Present
Serve as peer reviewer on articles submitted for publication.
Jossey-Bass Publications, San Francisco, CA 2005 – Present
Serve as peer reviewer on book proposals submitted to publisher.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Evaluation Association
- Member since 1995
- AEA Board Member, 2007-2009 – Chair of the Internal Scan Task Force
- Co-Chair of the Qualitative Methods Topical Interest Group, 2002 - 2015
- Ethics Committee: Chair, 2005, member 2004 – 2006; member and chair of Ethics Professional
Development Task Force
CONTRACT EVALAUTION WORK
Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI 2008 – 2010
- Supervised implementation of large scale, multi-site evaluation of the Health Through Action Initiative,
which serves the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations.
SERVICE/CONSULTATIONS
Global Habitat Project Board of Directors 2000 – 2006
- Board Chair, 2003-2006
B.E.L.L., Boston, MA 2002 – Present
- Member of National Evaluation Advisory Board.
Discovering Justice 2005 – 2006
- Evaluation consultation
Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts 2006
- Evaluation consultation
Urban Ecology Institute Board of Directors 2006 – 2009
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston 2007 – Present
- Evaluation consultation
ACT for Youth 2007 – 2010
- Evaluation consultation

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PUBLICATIONS
Goodyear, L., Barela, E., Jewiss, J. & Usinger, J. (Eds.) (2014). Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory
to Practice. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). Building a community of evaluation practice within a multisite program. In J. King
and F. Lawrenz (Eds.) Multisite Evaluation Practice: Lessons and Reflections from Four Cases. New
Directions for Evaluation, Spring 2011, 129, pp. 97-105.
Goodyear, Leslie. (Ed.) (2007). Special Issue: Ethics in Evaluation. Evaluation and Program Planning, 30(4).
Garibay, Cecilia and Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). The Role of Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation: A Mandate for
Inclusion, the Discovery of Truth and Understanding. Visitor Studies, 10(2), pp. 223-227.
Goodyear, Leslie and Carlson, Bethany. (2007). The ITEST Learning Resource Center’s Online Evaluation Database:
Examples from the Collection. International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 3(1), pp. 51-65.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). Poetry, Performance and Pathos in Evaluation Reporting. In S. Kushner and N. Norris
(Eds.) Dilemmas of Engagement. Volume 10 of the Advances in Program Evaluation Series. JAI Press:
Oxford.
Goodyear, Leslie and Checkoway, Barry. (Eds.). (2003). Community Youth Development Journal, 4(1).
Goodyear, Leslie. (2003). Engaging young people in evaluation as a strategy for field-building and innovation.
In Goodyear, L. and Checkoway, B. (Eds.) Community Youth Development Journal, 4(1), pp. 54-55.
Greene, Jennifer, Benjamin, Lehn and Goodyear, Leslie. (2001). The merits of mixing methods in evaluation.
Evaluation, 7(1), pp. 25-44.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Goodyear, Leslie. (2014) Qualitative Inquiry in the Practice of Evaluation: Perspectives on Theory and
Practice. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver,
CO, October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2014). Understanding Ourselves Through Organizational Self-Assessment and Learning.
Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO,
October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2014). Evaluating Equity-Focused Post-Secondary Educational Partnerships. Bi-Annual
Meeting of the European Evaluation Society. Dublin, Ireland, October, 2014.
Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). The Secret Lives of Outcomes: A conversation about how
they are defined, constituted, targeted, commodified and experienced. Panel presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). Insights into Interactions between Evaluation Policy and its Implementation. Paper
presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2013). Considerations for the New Evaluator when Incorporating Qualitative Inquiry into
Evaluation Practice. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association,
Washington, DC, October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2012). US Federal Program Evaluation from the Inside Out. Paper presentation at the
Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN, November.
Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Performance Indicators
on the Psychological Well-being of Public Employees: An Interview and Discussion With the
Researcher. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association,
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Goodyear, Leslie. (2011). Evaluation of Discrete Steps in the Process of Institutionalizing Educational
Practices: Are We Asking the Right Questions? Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Evaluation Association, Anaheim, CA, November.
Goodyear, Leslie, Barela, Eric, Jewiss, Jennifer and Usinger, Janet (2010). Quality in Evaluation: How Do We
Know It When We See It in Qualitative Evaluations? Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Evaluation Association, San Antonio, TX, November.
Dahler-Larsen, Peter and Goodyear, Leslie. (2010). Evaluation System in the Public Interest. Panel presentation
at the European Evaluation Society Meeting, Prague, CZ. October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2010). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive
workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2009). Context and Evaluation: Another Perspective on a Complex Relationship. Presidential
Strand Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Orlando, FL,
November.
Goodyear, Leslie and Parsons, Beverly. (2009). Building Evaluation Capacity, Learning and Use through
Communities of Practice. Think Tank Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation
Association, Orlando, FL, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2009). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive
workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2008). Fitting the Design to the Context: Examples from ITEST. Presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2008). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive
workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). The Role of Representation in Democratic Accountability and Evaluation.
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Baltimore, MD,
November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2007). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your Practice. Interactive
workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.
Marquart, Jules, Goodyear, Leslie and Affholter, Dennis. (2006). Train the Trainers: How to Teach the
American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Evaluation Association, Portland, OR, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2006). How can program evaluation contribute to understanding how diverse learners
benefit from ISL? Presentation to the National Academy of Science Committee on Learning Science in
Informal Environments. September 20, Washington, D.C.
Goodyear, Leslie and Marquart, Jules. (2006). Using the Guiding Principles for Evaluators to Improve Your
Practice. Interactive workshop presented at the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, Atlanta, GA. June.
Goodyear, Leslie and Lawrenz, Frances. (2005). Evaluating Information Technology Experience for Students
and Teachers (ITEST): Three projects' experiences. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Ontario, CA, October.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2005). Performance, Poetry and Pathos in Evaluation Reporting. Presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Ontario, CA, October.
Goodyear, Leslie and Hartry, Ardice. (2004). Evaluation across disparate projects: The Information Technology
Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Experience. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2004). Humanizing outcomes: The promise of mixed format representations. Presentation at
the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA, November.
Goodyear, Leslie (2003). Thinking Methodologically, Representing People’s Stories. Presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Reno, NV. November.

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Goodyear, Leslie. (2002). Bringing youth involvement into the broader evaluation conversation: challenges and
opportunities. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association,
Washington, DC, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (2001). The Democratic Promise of Mixed Format Representations for Presenting
Evaluation Findings: A Performative Paper Presentation. Alternative Format Session at
Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, St Louis, MO, November.
Goodyear, Leslie and Lowe, Staci. (2000). Assessing the effectiveness of a technology-based child-
welfare initiative: Considerations for evaluation. Paper presentation at the Evaluation for
Practice Conference. Huddersfield, England, July.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1999). “A circle that it’s time to open.” Performance presentation at Society for the Study of
Symbolic Interaction Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, August.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1999). Representational form and audience understanding: An experiment Paper presentation
at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Orlando, FL, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1998). From research to reflection: Using performance as a re-presentation of a
participatory evaluation. Paper presentation and performance at the Annual Meeting of the American
Evaluation Association, Chicago, IL, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1997). “A circle that it’s time to open.” A Performance as Representation of
Inquiry. Paper presentation and performance at Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and
Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age. University of Southern California, June.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1996). Participation, representation and social change: What is an evaluator's role?
Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta,
GA, November.
Goodyear, Leslie and Lachance, Andrea. (1996). Stakeholders as gatekeepers: Practical implications for
multiplistic evaluation. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation
Association, Atlanta, GA, November.
Goodyear, Leslie. (1995). Talking With Kids About AIDS: A case study of new volunteer leaders in New York
City. Roundtable presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association,
Vancouver, BC, November.
Greene, Jennifer, Benjamin, Lehn, Goodyear, Leslie, and Lowe, Staci. (1999). The merits of mixing methods in
applied social research. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Public Policy
Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November.
Dissertation Title: Representational Form and Audience Understanding in Evaluation: Advancing Use and Engaging
Postmodern Pluralism Building on previous research and representational experimentation in the fields of sociology,
anthropology and evaluation, this multi-faceted qualitative study used the interaction between the presentation of
evaluation findings and audience as the focal point to thoughtfully inform the practice of evaluation, and in particular, the
possible link between representational format of findings and audience understanding and evaluation use.
Dissertation committee:
Jennifer Greene, Chair; Davydd Greenwood, Ritch Savin-Williams
Areas of specialization and interest:
• Evaluation and research methodology, specifically mixed-method, qualitative, interpretive, and participatory-
democratic designs for program evaluation and applied social and educational research.
• Evaluation of large, national programs and systems, particularly government funded programs.
• Creative formats for the representation of evaluation findings to diverse audiences.
• Broadening Participation in STEM, STEM learning and teaching, Youth Media, Informal Science Education,
Afterschool education programs, Ethnography, Sociology, Education, Participatory Action Research, Family and
Children’s Policy, Civic Leadership, Educational Evaluation, Evaluation Capacity Building, Youth Development,
HIV/AIDS Prevention.

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