Sharon A. Herpin’s research and program evaluation experience includes a wide array of topic areas, with a special focus on evaluating technical assistance, arts education, higher education, and professional development. She has directed projects for national agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Arts Education Partnership; state education agencies including Massachusetts, Indiana, and Nevada; and local projects for many different organizations. Currently, she directs the evaluations of the Midwest Comprehensive Center, the Great Lakes Comprehensive Center, the University of Southern California’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program, the Getty Center’s art@thecore project, and the Hammer Museum’s Classroom-in-Residence program. She also provides professional development, technical assistance, and consulting services on research methodology and procedures, program evaluation, rubric and protocol development, setting goals and SMART objectives, logic model development, and other topics. Prior clients include Brigham Young University, the NEA, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the California Alliance for Arts Education. Herpin served as lead author on the NEA-commissioned report Improving the Assessment of Student Learning in the Arts–State of the Field and Recommendations, and the California Office to Reform Education-commissioned report Arts and the Common Core: A Scan of State Education Agencies and National Arts Organization. She was appointed to the California state task force for arts education and served as a reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Core competencies and critical skills include research design and methodology, instrument development, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, staff mentoring, project and budget management, group facilitation, cross-functional team building, resources development, organizational leadership, and change management.
Listed skills include Research Design, Program Evaluation, Research, Survey Design, and 24 others.