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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis

for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board


Faculty Vita

Sheila Arens, M.A.

Title: Associate Instructor
Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 2000


Academic Degrees

M.A. University of Colorado (Colorado Springs) 1996 Experimental Psychology
B.A. University of Colorado (Colorado Springs) 1993 Psychology

Professional Experience

2000-2002 Associate Instructor, Indiana University
1997-2001 Graduate Assistant, Indiana University
1998-2001 Research Associate & Intern, OERI Regional Education Lab: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning Lab, Denver
1994-1997 Evaluation Associate, Torres Consulting Group
1993-1996 Research Assistant, University of Colorado
1994-2001 Independent Consultant

Faculty load

100% Teaching

Faculty Teaching

Summer II, 2002 Y535 Methodology of Educational Evaluation
Summer, 2001 Y520 Strategies for Educational Inquiry
Spring, 2001 Y520 Strategies for Educational Inquiry
Summer, 2000 Y520 Strategies for Educational Inquiry

Selected Publications

    Schwandt, T. A. & Arens, S. A. (in press). [Review of the book The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process by M. Crotty]. To appear in: Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

    Delandshere, G. D. & Arens, S. A. (accepted, pending revisions). Examining the quality of the evidence in pre-service teacher portfolios. Journal of Teacher Education.

    Arens, S. A. & Schwandt, T. A. (2000). [Review of the book Values in Evaluation and Social Research by E. R. House and K. R. Howe]. Evaluation and Program Planning, 23(3), 331-333.

    Torres, R. T., Stone, S. P., Butkus, D. L., Hook, B. B., Casey, J. & Arens, S. A. (2000). Dialogue and reflection in a collaborative evaluation: Stakeholder and evaluator voices. New Directions for Evaluation, 85, 27-38.

    Delandshere, G. D. & Arens, S. A. (in press). Representations of teaching and standards-based reform: Are we closing the debate about teacher education? To appear in: Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    American Psychological Association, Student Affiliate
    American Psychological Association for Graduate Students
    Psi Chi, National Honor Society for Psychology Students
    American Educational Research Association, Student Affiliate
    American Evaluation Association, Student Affiliate


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