Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead (She/Her/Hers)

Professor

Educational Psychology


Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead is accepting graduate students for Fall 2025.

To learn more about Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead’s evaluation and research work, please visit her lab website.

Other ways to connect with Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead:

Current Projects:

  • Fostering Computational Thinking through Neural Engineering Activities in High School Biology Classes
  • External Evaluation of the Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Center for Equity
  • Systematic Review of Youth Participatory Evaluation Studies
  • The Applicability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in Evaluation

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Psychology (Evaluation and Research Methods Concentration), Claremont Graduate University, 2009
  • M.A., Psychology (Evaluation and Organizational Behavior Concentration), Claremont Graduate University, 2003
  • B.A., Psychology, University of South Carolina at Columbia, 2001

Areas of Expertise:

  • Evaluation design
  • Improving evaluation quality
  • Strengthening evaluator education
  • Applied studies of educational policies and interventions designed to promote student learning and equity

Honors and Awards

  • In 2021, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead was awarded the EvalYouth Award in recognition of her international contributions to evaluation.
  • Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead was the 2014 recipient of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Marcia Guttentag Award, the association’s only early career award.

    Important Service to the Field

    • In January 2023, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead assumed a 3-year term as co-Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Evaluation, one of the field’s major journals.
    • In October 2023, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead joined the editorial board for the American Journal of Evaluation, the field’s most prestigious journal.
    • Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead is a former elected American Evaluation Association board member (2018-2020).

    Sample of Recent Journal Articles, Journal Special Issues, Edited Books & Book Chapters (Total = 36)

    Full list included on CV. An * denotes graduate or undergraduate student co-author.

    • Lemire, S., Montrosse-Moorhead, B., & Christie, C. A. (2024). Special issue on visualizing evaluation theory. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 20, 163. https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/issue/view/85
    • Lemire, S., Montrosse-Moorhead, B., & Christie, C. A. (2024). What is this thing called evaluation theory? Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 20, 1–7. https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/1037
    • Montrosse-Moorhead, B., Schröter, D., & Becho, L. W. (2024). The garden of evaluation approaches visualization. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 20, 49–58. https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/1029
    • Montrosse-Moorhead, B., Schröter, D., & Becho, L. W. (2024). The garden of evaluation approaches. American Journal of Evaluation, 45(2), 166–185. https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140231216667
    • Linnell, D. J., & Montrosse-Moorhead, B. (2024). Navigating the boundaries between evaluators and similar applied professionals. Evaluation, 30(1), 138–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/13563890231213643
    • Montrosse‐Moorhead, B. (2023). Evaluation criteria for artificial intelligence. New Directions for Evaluation, 178-179, 123–134. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20566
    • Montrosse-Moorhead, B., & *Bitar, K. (2024). Amending the architectural blueprints for evaluation. In L. A. Wingate, A. Boyce, L. W. Becho, & K. Robertson (Eds.), Core Concepts in Evaluation: Contemporary Commentary on Classic Writings. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
        Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead
        Contact Information
        Emailbianca@uconn.edu
        Phone860 486 0177
        Office LocationGentry 338
        Office HoursSee calendly.com/bianca-eval