Contact
- Email: giancola@udel.edu
- Phone: 302-831-4434
Links
Education and Social Policy, Solicy Policy and Evaluation, Health Policy and Evaluation
Sue Giancola
Associate Professor
Dr. Sue Giancola is associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, as well as senior associate director in the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) and program director of the M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Evaluation Science program. She teaches graduate courses in evaluation, survey research, and research design.
Dr. Giancola has over 30 years of experience as an evaluator in both academia and private business, evaluating programs in education, human services, health, engineering, business, agriculture and entrepreneurship. Her work focuses on leveraging quality improvement and engineering design principles to improve program and policy evaluation. She has evaluated projects funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education, as well as local, state and foundation-funded programs. Currently, Dr. Giancola serves as evaluation principal investigator on several NSF and NIH grants related to translational science, entrepreneurship and mentorship in higher education.
She is also the author of Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development, available through SAGE publications, as well as Evaluation Matters, a training guide prepared for the US Department of Education.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Education, Concentration: Policy Research, Evaluation and Measurement, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- M.M., Management, Concentration: Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- B.S., Systems Engineering, Concentration: Management Information Systems, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Professional Experience
- School of Education, University of Delaware
- Associate Professor, April 2024- present
- Secondary Faculty Appointment, September 2017- April 2024
- Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP), University of Delaware
- Senior Associate Director, May 2019-present
- Associate Director, June 2017- May 2019
- Interdisciplinary Evaluation Science, University of Delaware
- Program Director, July 2022- present
- Department of Human Services and Family Studies and Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University: Brandywine Campus.
- Adjunct Faculty, August 2012- May 2017
- Giancola Research Associates, Inc.
- President and Independent Consultant, August 2000- December 2017
- School of Education, University of Delaware
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, February 2003-December 2004
- Assistant Professor, April 1999- February 2003
- Delaware Education Research and Development Center, University of Delaware
- Senior Associate for Evaluation, July 1997- February 2003
- Associate Director, July 2000- June 2002
- Associate for Data Management and Analysis, March 1995- June 1997
- Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Systems Analyst and Quality Consultant, November 1993- February 1995
- AstraZeneca (formerly ICI Americas)
- Programmer/Analyst, June 1990- October 1993
Recent Grants
- NSF ART Translating Engineering Driven Initiatives from Idea to Impact (2024-2027)
- Project PI: Higginson/University of Delaware; Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
- NSF Cybercorps Scholarship for Service (SFS; 2024-2028)
- Project PI: Barner/University of Delaware; Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
- NIH IDeA-CTR Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL Program (2023-2027)
- Project PI: Hicks/University of Delaware; Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
- NSF AGEP FC-PAM Alliance for Relevant and Inclusive Sponsorship of Engineering Researchers (ARISE; 2023-2028)
- Project PI: Colvin/Brown University; Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
- NSF ADVANCE Adaptation: Re-envisioning Inclusive and Sustainable Excellence (RISE; 2023-2026)
- Project PI: Agho/Old Dominion University; Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
- NIH R25 Training in Diversity Education (TiDe; 2022-2027)
- Project PIs: Skidmore/University of Pittsburgh and Hicks/University of Delaware); Evaluation PI: Giancola/University of Delaware
Professional Service
- Editorial Board Member, New Directions for Evaluation. 2023-present.
- Lead. National Clinical and Translational Research National Evaluator’s Group. 2018-present.
- Chair. American Evaluation Association. Translational Research Evaluation TIG. 2023-2024. Program Chair, 2020-2021.