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Dana Linnell, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology in evaluation in the psychology department at UW-Stout. She teaches evaluation courses to students in the M.S. in Applied Industrial/Organizational Psychology program, as well as statistics and intro psychology.

Her research focuses on the evaluation profession, including defining evaluation, data visualization practices in evaluation, the role of politics in evaluation, and more. Her research emphasizes open science practices and reproducibility, namely through the Open Science Framework and reproducible data analysis scripts in R. She is an associate editor for the American Journal of Evaluation.

She has been a member of the American Evaluation Association since 2014 and most recently began the AEA Student Evaluation Case Competition. She received the Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator award in 2023.

What Is Evaluation?: Perspectives of How Evaluation Differs (or Not) From Research Dana Linnell