Dr. Constance C. Bergquist,
President of Evaluation Systems Design, Inc.
Dr. Bergquist serves as project director of all ESDI projects. She received
her Ph.D. in Education Evaluation and Measurement from the Department
of Education Research, Development, and Foundations, Florida State University.
She has extensive management experience as the contract monitor for numerous
projects in education, including those that have by necessity been completed
under very short time frames. For example, Dr. Bergquist supervised the
evaluation of the Illinois Reading Improvement Program, the Illinois Accelerated
Schools Program, and the evaluation of Components of Legislation Affecting
the Welfare of Young Children in Florida. She also was Project Director
for the National Evaluation of Writing to Write for IBM and the development
of the teacher’s guide and all supplementary materials for the Writing
to Read 2000 project.
Dr. Bergquist has been the Committee Chair for Research and Evaluation
for the American Evaluation Association as well as President of the Florida
Educational Research Association and the Southeast Evaluation Association.
Dr. Bergquist has conducted numerous formative and summative program evaluations
for state and local education and human service agencies. She designed,
collected, and presented five evaluations of exemplary education projects
that were approved by the National Joint Dissemination Review Panel in
Washington as exemplary education programs for national dissemination.
She was a trainer for two years on Appreciating Racial, Cultural, and
Gender Diversity for the Department of Corrections. She has classroom
teaching experience in Program Evaluation and Statistics as well as Developing
and Using Classroom Measure. She is a certified validator for the National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) that will be helpful
in evaluating the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs being implemented
for this study. Dr. Bergquist will be responsible for the implementation
of all contract activities.