Research Associate Professor
Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center
Ashlee A. Lewis is a Research Associate Professor in the Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. Her work spans a variety of areas, focusing primarily on program evaluation, classroom assessment, and applied research. Her program evaluation work is often mixed methods with an emphasis on utilization-focused evaluation methods and qualitative methodologies. She has examined arts education programs across South Carolina through evaluation and research work with the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Arts in Basic Curriculum Institute, and she serves as the director of the South Carolina Arts Assessment Program.
Much of Dr. Lewis's program evaluation work has centered on teacher professional development and efforts to retain teachers in the classroom, including evaluations of the Carolina Teacher Induction Program and Carolina CrED. She is currently the lead evaluator for Arts Grow SC, the Community Assistance for Rural Arts Education (CARE) Project, the Carolina Teacher Induction Program (CarolinaTIP), CarolinaCrED, and MUSC’s Teen Science Ambassador Program. She also serves on the evaluation team for the Carolina Family Engagement Center.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MST