Research interests
Mike Trevisan’s research interests include
evaluation methodology, evaluation capacity building,
student assessment, and applied measurement.
Teaching/professional interests
Trevisan teaches courses in program evaluation, student
assessment, measurement, and applied statistics. He is
director of the Assessment and
Evaluation Center at Washington State University.
Through grants and contracts, the center provides
evaluation-related research and service to K-12 schools
and academic departments on university campuses.
Recent accomplishments
- Published the article “Evaluability
Assessment From 1986 to 2006” in the American
Journal of Evaluation, 28(3), 290-313 (2007).
- Published the article “The Impact of the
All-of-the-Above Option and Student Ability on Multiple
Choice Tests” in the International Journal of
the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 1(2),
with YiMin Huang and Andrew Storfer (2007).
- Published the article “Investigating Form
Comparability in the Idaho Comprehensive Literacy
Assessment: Matters of Fairness and Transparency”
in the journal, Studies in Educational
Evaluation, 32(4), 369-380. (2006)
- Received funding from ESD 101 in Washington State
to evaluate a Math-Science Partnership grant designed
to increase the capacity of science education teachers
(2007)
- Received funding from the National Science
Foundation to evaluate an informal science education
grant designed to bring science to Latino families in
the Yakima Valley. (2006)
Educational background
- Ph.D. Educational Psychology, University of
Washington, 1990.
- M.Ed., Educational Psychology, University of
Washington, 1988.
- B.A. Mathematics, San Jose State University, 1983
