Phone: 512-232-6049 | Email: lgarbrecht@tacc.utexas.edu
Lisa Garbrecht directs the Evaluation Services division of TACC that was launched in 2019. Lisa is the former Director of Evaluation Services of the UT Austin's College of Education STEM Center and has over 25 years of experience designing and conducting program evaluation and research on STEM education, professional development, workforce development, public health, and other research projects. She has led the evaluations of numerous international, national, statewide, and regional teacher professional learning initiatives designed to improve teaching and student learning in K-20 STEM education and careers. Lisa has also taught research methods, assessment, and learning courses in the Colleges of Education at the University of California, Irvine and at Arizona State University.
Jacobson, M. R., Baker, S. N., Yang, Y., Childs, J., Wang, Z., & Garbrecht, L. S. (in press). Data sharing and evaluation: Evaluation’s role in improving the quality of open science data sharing platforms. New Directions for Evaluation.
Garbrecht L, Baker S, Wang Z. (March 2024) Integrating Computer Science in Elementary Education. In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635379
Torbey R, McGill M, Garbrecht L. (March 2023). Creating and Modifying Existing Surveys to Fit Your CS Education Research Needs. In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Toronto, Canada, V. 2, 1177. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3569622
Garbrecht L, Baker S, Jacobson M. (August 2022). Best Practices for Evaluating CyberInfrastructure and Modeling Environments. Presented at IS-GEO-22 Annual Meeting, virtual.
Garbrecht L, Azzam T, Mason S, Jacobson M, Arellano R. (April 2021). Improving Equity through Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practice. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, virtual.
Warner J, Fletcher C, Torbey R, Garbrecht L. (February 2019). Increasing Capacity for Computer Science Education in Rural Areas through a Large-Scale Collective Impact Model. In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Minneapolis, MN. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287418
Warner J, Fletcher C, Garbrecht L. (April 2018). The Impact of Teacher Professional Development on Student Achievement: Implications of a Multilevel Quasi-Experimental Study. Paper presented at the American Education Research Association annual meeting, New York City, NY.
Garbrecht L. (October 2016). Integrating Evaluation and Program Design for Sustained Statewide Teacher Professional Development in STEM. Paper presented at the American Evaluation Association conference, Atlanta, GA.
Garbrecht, L. (December 2006). Schools’ Influence on Identity Formation in a Time of Change. Educational Researcher. 35(9), 42-47. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X035009042
