Donna Mertens (North America)

Dr. Donna M. Mertens, Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Research at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., teaches research methods, program evaluation, and educational psychology to deaf and hearing students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A Past- President (1998) and Board member of the American Evaluation Association, she  provided leadership for its Building Diversity Initiative and International Committee. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation. She authored/edited several books, including Research and Evaluation Methods in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2005) Research and Evaluation Methods in Special Education, (Corwin, 2004) (with John McLaughlin as co-author), Parents and their deaf children: The early years (Gallaudet Press, 2003) (with Kay Meadow Orlans and Marilyn Sass Lehrer as co-authors), Research and Inequality (Taylor & Francis, 2000) (with Carole Truman and Beth Humphries as co-editors), as well as journal articles published in the American Journal of Evaluation, American Annals of the Deaf, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. She is conducting an evaluation of a national technology project to improve preparation of teachers of deaf students and has participated in evaluations nationally and internationally with the National Science Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, USAID, the United Nations UNIFEM Africa, the US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Department of Education.