The Department of Educational Psychology is pleased to announce that Frances Lawrenz, Ph.D., is the 2016 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Executive Committee of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Evaluation (RoE) Special Interest Group (SIG).

This award recognizes an individual whose cumulative body of work attends to and advances theory or methods within the field of evaluation for ten years or more. Nominees were judged based on the number and quality of peer reviewed publications addressing evaluation research, the type and quality of presentations on evaluation theory and methods, the amount of competitive grants/professional contracts to conduct research on evaluation, and the impact of the body of work at the national or international level.

Dr. Lawrenz will be the featured speaker at the 2017 Business Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. On behalf of the Department of Educational Psychology, we wish to congratulate Dr. Lawrenz on this prestigious award!