Elizabeth Devaney is deputy director at the Providence After School Alliance (PASA). Over her four years at PASA, she has remained committed to incorporating high-quality data into youth program improvement efforts, and proposes a Fellowship experience that will deepen her familiarity with organizational quality improvement research design, methods, and measures. Devaney will spend three weeks of each year working in Michigan at the Weikert Center with Dr. Charles Smith, developer of the Youth Program Quality Assessment, or in Washington, D.C. with the Center’s research director. Both will assist her in developing and implementing a research project on how individual staff use data to improve practice, and how leaders in participating youth organizations in Rhode Island are or are not creating a culture of data-driven accountability and improvement. Additionally, Devaney will spend one day per week working with Dr. Kenneth Wong at Brown University, who will mentor her on research methods and assist her in the design and conceptualization of her project.
Devaney proposes a Fellowship experience that will deepen her familiarity with organizational quality improvement research design, methods, and measures.
