jeromedelisle consulting

jeromedelisle consulting (two words) is the business label for my domain at jeromedelisle.com.

Do you need my services in educational assessment, programme evaluation or in educational research. Are you located in Trinidad and Tobago or the Caribbean?

I can work with you to create ideas, activities or workshops for improving the performance of your educational institution through high quality assessment or evaluation processes.

On this site are the 2013 and 2014 workshops conducted for teachers in Tobago funded by DEYAS.

My career as a teacher and researcher

I once taught Biology and Integrated Science at both the Junior and Senior Secondary Levels. (That seems such a long time ago)

In 1993, I began to lecture at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad, in the areas of leadership and management in education, student and assessment and educational evaluation.  I have also dabbled in science education.

In 1998 I moved to the Centre for Medical Sciences Education, cited at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.   My post as a Lecturer in Measurement & Evaluation was much different as I became involved in "real work" such as assessment design, developing and managing examination systems and also implementing quality assurance systems in higher education. 

I trained staff at Mona and St. Augustine Medical Schools in assessment policy and practice. At St. Augustine, I managed aspects of the assessment process, including computerized scoring of MCQs. 

Since 1999, I have extended my work in evaluation and quality assessment. That included being Chair of the Audit Committee at the Faculty of Medical Sciences.  My research interests in this area remain varied, extending to publications on value-added performance indicators, student failure in tertiary education, and male underachievement in higher education.

Throughout my career at "Mount Hope" I continued to teach organizational theory and school improvement in the Faculty of Humanities and Education.

In January 2006 I returned to the School of Education.  I am formally assigned to the area of Educational Administration but still focus mostly on my subspecialty of measurement and evaluation. In 2009, I was appointed Senior Lecturer.

I have successfully expanded my research areas on returning to the School of Education.  In 2009 I completed two large research projects on school choice in Trinidad and Tobago and the identification and study of schools facing challenging circumstances.  I am also engaged in a range of consultancies, including some teaching for other Universities and research and evaluation work associated with funded projects. My work on the evaluation of CAP has been published in several arenas.

In 2013 I wrote for the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Education a report on the evaluation of the single sex school conversion (data collected by the MoE)

In 2015-2016 I was technical leader of the UWI School of Education Evaluation of the Primary School Curriculum Rewrite.

My latest research project focuses on public examinations like the Eleven Plus and on the nature of inequalities in education system.

My Certification & Training

Ph.D. (Education)   UWI  1994

THESIS Title: The Work Environment of Secondary School Teachers

Thesis Sub-concentrations: Educational Administration, Organizational Psychology, Educational Evaluation, Multivariate Statistics

Postgraduate Courses (Each course is a Full Major or Concentration-60-Hours Distinctions in all courses)

1)       Educational Psychology

2)       Research Methods

3)       Educational Administration

4)       Educational Sociology

5)       Curriculum Development & Implementation

Dip. Ed. (Teaching of Science)   UWI        1985

BSc. (Hons) (Zoo/Bot/Food Tech.)  UWI       1982

Nuffield Foundation Fellowship  Birmingham (UK)     1994

This three-month fellowship was competed at the University of Birmingham and was arranged in conjunction with the then Faculty of Education, UWI, St. Augustine. The fellowship allowed the candidate to audit postgraduate courses and complete a project with possible direct relevance to educational change in the candidates’ country.

 Project Title: Impact of decentralization in the UK: Implications for Trinidad & Tobago Project Role: Team Leader

Postgraduate Courses audited at Birmingham, UK

1)       Effective Schools (Field Course)

2)       Management in the Context of Stringency

3)       Management of Special Education

4)       Information Technology

5)       Information Technology Co-ordination

Statistical Software Training -SPSS/EXCEL/SIMS

Continuous Professional Development

Measurement, Evaluation & Statistics

• Data Visualization^ψ   Stephanie Evergreen (AEA)    2015
• Basic Survey Sampling AEA  2015
• The Psychology of Survey Respondents  AEA           2015
• Creating an Index for Measuring Fidelity  AEA        2015
• Qualitative Coding   Johnny Saldana (AERA)    2015
• Diagnostic Classification Modelling   Line Bradshaw (NCME)  2015
• Item Response Theory^λ   William P. Skorupski     2014
• SEM & Data Analysis with MPLUS^λ  Rens van de Schoot   2014
• Test Equating-Methods & Practice  D. Brennan & M. Kolen (NCME)  2014
• HLM for Educational Researchers A. O’Connell & B. McCoach       2014
• Analysis of PISA ILSA      Institutes of America (AERA)    2014
• Advanced Analysis (ILSAs)  IEA  2014
• HLM and ILSA^λ    IEA-DRC   2013
• Social Network Analysis       Alan Daly (ICSEI)       2013
• Structural Equation Modelling^λ  Todd Little & Noel Card     2013
• Developmental Evaluation  Michael Patton (AEA)    2013
• Utilization Focused Evaluation   Michael Patton (AEA)     2013
• Multilevel Modelling^λ   James Selig    2012
• Multilevel Models in Evaluation  Sanjeev Sridharan (AEA)     2012
• Experimental Designs in Evaluation ^ψ   Chris Coyn (AEA)       2012
• Computer Adaptive Testing^ψ     Assessment Systems Corp.      2012
• Standard Setting  Michael B. Bunch (NCME)   2012
• Advances in Constructed-Response  ETS (NCME) 2012
• Assessing 21st Century Skills      Patrick C. Kyllonen (NCME)    2012
• Generalizability Theory- David Brennan (NCME)      2011
• Large Scale International Assessments  AERA             2011
• Logic Modelling^ψ  Thomas J. Chapel (AEA)            2011
• Theory Driven Evaluation    Huey T. Chen (AEA)       2011
• Effectiveness Methodologies  Pam Sammons (ICSEI)          2011
• Linking & Equating    Joseph Ryan (NCME)    2010
• Quality Control in Test Development        Avi Allalouf (NCME)    2010
• IRT Parameter Estimates  Seock-Ho Kim (NCME)       2010

Mixed Methods

• Qualitative Driven MM  Janice Morse        2014
• Integration in MM    Joseph Maxwell         2014
• Paradigms and Mental Models      Jennifer Greene (12^th QIC)    2012
• Controversies in MM        John Creswell (12^th QIC)    2012
• Writing MM Manuscripts   Tony Onwuegbuzie (7^th MM)    2011
• MM Approaches   John Creswell   2010
• Transformative Paradigm    Donna Mertens (6^th MM)   2010
• MM Project & Manuscript Production  Jennifer P. Wisdom   2010





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