- Department of Education, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- James M. Jeffords Center for Policy Research
BIO
Associate Professor Emeritus Bud Meyers taught quantitative methods, evaluation design and leadership development at UVM from 1971 through 2013. He designed and conducted program evaluations for a wide range of education and human services programs. Most recently, he directed the James M. Jeffords Center for Policy Research at UVM. From 2000 through 2006, while on leave from UVM, he served Vermont as Deputy Commissioner of Education for Assessment and School Improvement.
His experience with program evaluation includes twenty studies of state educational and human services programs for Vermont’s Research Partnership and the Jeffords Center as well as fifteen program evaluations carried out as an independent evaluator for Lighthouse Evaluation from 2000 through the present. Many of these evaluations have resulted in peer reviewed papers that are available at UVM Scholarworks.
Area(s) of expertise
- Program assessment and evaluation
- School improvement
Bio
Associate Professor Emeritus Bud Meyers taught quantitative methods, evaluation design and leadership development at UVM from 1971 through 2013. He designed and conducted program evaluations for a wide range of education and human services programs. Most recently, he directed the James M. Jeffords Center for Policy Research at UVM. From 2000 through 2006, while on leave from UVM, he served Vermont as Deputy Commissioner of Education for Assessment and School Improvement.
His experience with program evaluation includes twenty studies of state educational and human services programs for Vermont’s Research Partnership and the Jeffords Center as well as fifteen program evaluations carried out as an independent evaluator for Lighthouse Evaluation from 2000 through the present. Many of these evaluations have resulted in peer reviewed papers that are available at UVM Scholarworks.
Areas of Expertise
- Program assessment and evaluation
- School improvement