Dawson R. Hancock

Dawson R. Hancock currently serves as chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches graduate courses in research, evaluation, and assessment. He has broad program-evaluation experience in local school districts and has conducted extensive research on teacher education and evaluation processes and on factors that influence student motivation to learn. His publications have appeared frequently in the Journal of Educational Research, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Journal of Research and Development in Education, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy, and Practice, Educational Forum, Educational Technology Research and Development, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, NASSP Bulletin, and Journal of General Education.