Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Department of Educational Psychology

Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead is an assistant professor of measurement, evaluation, and assessment in the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Neag School of Education, and program coordinator for UConn’s Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation. As an evaluation researcher, educator, and practitioner, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead specializes in evaluation theory, methodology, practice, and capacity building. For example, she has published on important issues such as the demarcation of evaluation’s knowledge base, gaps between evaluator education and the demands of on-the-ground practice, the validity of evaluative arguments, and the importance of establishing professional standards for public evaluation work. She also has an active evaluation practice, and has directed several evaluations at the local, state, and national level (over $9.5 million dollars in grants and contracts secured). Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, and Evaluation and Program Planning. In 2014, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead was the recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award, the association’s only early career award.  In 2017, she was appointed to the editorial board of New Directions for Evaluation, an official journal of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and elected to a three-year term on the AEA Board. Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead currently co-chairs EvalYouth, an international network that aims is to build evaluator capacity throughout the world.