Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow (University of Rhode Island) focuses her research on three main areas: program evaluation, college student development, and teaching research methods and statistics. In the area of program evaluation she conducts evaluations primarily in higher education settings as well as K-12 educational settings and community-based health promotion settings. She conducts research on students’ sense of belonging, substance misuse, and persistence and retention in the area of college student development. Lastly, she investigates the effectiveness of utilizing peer mentors and web-enhanced and collaborative pedagogies in statistics and research methods courses.
In the past twelve years she has been awarded over $630,000 in external funding from a variety of local and federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education. She has published 19 articles in peer reviewed journals and has written over 80 evaluation and grant reports. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association (active in Assessment in Higher Education and Teaching Evaluation TIGs), the American Psychological Association (active in Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics and Teaching of Psychology), and the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Morrow has taught numerous courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level at three different institutions (University of Rhode Island, Old Dominion University, and The University of Tennessee). She currently teaches graduate-level courses in program evaluation, survey research, applied statistics (beginner to advanced), classroom measurement, psychometrics, and educational research methods. She also teaches an undergraduate first-year seminar on the topic of substance misuse in college students. In the past she has taught undergraduate courses in statistics, research methods, first-year orientation seminar, and social psychology.
Dr. Morrow received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island, her M.A. in Psychology from Rhode Island College, and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She was an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia from 2001-2007 where she was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2007. She has been a faculty member at the University of Tennessee since 2007. She currently is an Associate Professor of Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement.