Cheryl Poth
Pronouns: She, her, hers
I am a Professor in the Faculty of Education and faculty member of the research-intensive Centre for Applied Research in Assessment and Measurement in Education (CRAME) at the University of Alberta.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7217-7599
I earned the following academic degrees: BSc (Queen’s University), BEd (Queen’s University), MA (University of Alabama), and PhD (Queen’s University). I currently hold the Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation from the Canadian Evaluation Society, am a member in good standing of the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT), and an active contributor to the global research and evaluation communities through the following associations (this list is not exhaustive!): Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), American Evaluation Society (AEA), and American Educational Research Association (AERA).
I conduct research, teach, and supervise graduate students in the areas of mixed methods research, program evaluation, qualitative research, classroom assessment and health sciences education. I recently completed a McCalla Teaching Professorship to enhance mixed methods research capacity (2020-2022) and was honoured with the 2023 Division D Significant Contributions to Research Methodology Awarded by the American Educational Research Association in the area of Multi and Mixed Methodology.
I am a faculty member in the Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science (MEDs) program area within the Faculty of Education. We offer a comprehensive training program where students participate in ongoing research, complete coursework, and are supervised by experts in the field.
As co-founder of the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and Community-based Evaluation Research Team (ACCERT), since 2009, Dr. Jacqueline Pei and I, together with more than 30 graduate students, have been building community–university research partnerships to advance innovative thinking and supports for program planning and impact assessments of service delivery for individuals with complex needs.
I have served several administrative and leadership roles as the Association Dean, Research, Faculty of Education (interim 2021-2021), Associate Director - Assessment at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (2018-2020), Program Area Coordinator of Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science (2018-2020), President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (2017-2018), and Associate Chair (Undergraduate) for the Department of Educational Psychology (2014-2015).
If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies, research collaborations and evaluation services please contact me to explore possibilities.
NEWS:
Published in October 2023! The SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods Research Design for which I am serving as editor. See tab for books along the top of this page.
Coming Soon! The following are in press....
The Fifth edition of the Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design with John Creswell (to be published January 2024)
Mapping evaluation use: A scoping review of extant literature (2005-2022) in the American Journal of Evaluation (Lead author Michelle Searle with Co-authors: A. Cooper, A., P. Worthington, J. Hughes, R. Gokiert.
What matters, to whom and why? Examining participation and impacts of instructor development efforts in higher education contexts in the International Journal for Academic Development (Lead author: J. Miller-Young and coauthor: F. Vargas Madriz)
Just made available in print, see HERE for Encyclopedia information (see Volume 12)
Promising ethical practices for fully integrated mixed methods research, International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed.), with Dr. Elizabeth Creamer and Dr. Leia Cain (pp. 522-530)
Mixed methods research design practices to address complexity in education, International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed.), with Dr. Emma Bullock (pp. 615-625)
Released and available online HERE ! Virtual special issue in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research on “Design of mixed methods research: Past advancements, present conversations, and future possibilities
Released and available online HERE! State of the Methods: Leveraging design possibilities of qualitatively oriented mixed methods research, International Journal of Qualitative Methodology, with Dr. Peggy Shannon-Baker
Handbook Chapter called Mixed methods integration in times of complexity! Included in the 2022 Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research edited by John Hitchcock and Tony Onwuegbuzie.
Available open access here! I served as a co-guest editor of a special issue Integration in Complex Mixed Methods Evaluation Designs of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation along with Michelle Searle.
Available open access here! I led an innovative approach to a mixed methods case study using data mining to study effective communication strategies during the onset of Covid-19 in the prestigious interdisciplinary Journal of Mixed Methods Research - current Impact Factor: 5.267 and now ranked 4/110 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Available open access here! I was part of a interdisciplinary team to develop and assess the psychometric properties of an educational development impact questionnaire evaluating complex outcomes of multifaceted educational development work within centres of teaching and learning in Studies in Educational Evaluation - current Impact Factor: 1.97
Free download! The work that Jacquie Pei and I undertake with ACCERT in developmental evaluation (page 30-31) is featured in a case study of the updated (and influential) A Developmental Evaluation Companion that can be found on the McConnell Foundation website (free!)
Available open access here is a special issue on Teaching Evaluation in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation - of the 15 practices notes, where I was involved in describing three applications across varying instructional contexts; from a term-long competency-based course to a condensed community-based experiential learning course
I was the March 2021 mentor in residence for Sage Methodspace
focused on Designing an Ethical Study
Research ethics published by Sage was released in 2021!
Innovation in Mixed Methods Research published by Sage was chosen as a 'most promising new textbook' by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association in 2021.
