Ann Doucette, PhD

Ann M. Doucette, PhD, has been a TEI faculty member since 2002. She has broad experience in planning, developing, and managing monitoring and evaluation activities for social programs at individual and system levels; and expertise in research methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches, data collection strategies, psychometric and measurement techniques, and applied statistical analysis. Dr. Doucette has worked with international, federal, and state organizations, universities; community groups; public schools; commercial health plans; and corporate organizations and foundations regarding the planning, design and management of monitoring and evaluation systems. A large part of her evaluation portfolio includes the development of professional evaluation training and capacity building programs, specifically designed to meet the needs of domestic and international organizations, agencies, and/or ministries. Dr. Doucette’s training and capacity building efforts include school-based education and reform initiatives; health and behavioral healthcare quality and service delivery; social systems including conflict and fragile environments (peacebuilding and peacekeeping), as well as civic engagement; poverty reduction; violence prevention; and social policy. She has designed and currently teaches several courses at The Evaluators’ Institute. Her work includes the development of performance and outcome measurement systems that target accountability, quality monitoring, program outcomes, and impact. This work includes a specialized emphasis on measurement, which is fundamentally critical in monitoring and evaluation practice, and emanates from a complex adaptive systems perspective. Dr. Doucette has developed several assessment measures, based on item response theory (IRT) measurement models. Dr. Doucette is an independent consultant. She has served on several advisory panels including the American Psychological Association Outcome Measurement Advisory Panel, National Academy of Sciences, U. S. Departments of Education, Labor (workforce development and military transition to the workplace), Health and Human Services (longitudinal data), Transportation, and the Physician Consortium on Performance Improvement (healthcare). Dr. Doucette completed her doctoral training at Columbia University.