Research Team

JIM CALLIOTTE Jim Calliotte received his Masters and Ph. D. in Counseling from St. Louis University. He has served as a counselor and Director of Counseling at 2 institutions, and currently is Director of Counseling & Advising Services and adjunct Associate Professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, where he has been for the past 26 years. He has published in a variety of journals and made over 50 presentations at national and regional conferences on a wide variety of issues affecting college students. He is active in the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), having served on the Generation and Dissemination of Knowledge Core Council and two terms on the Commission for Assessment for Student Development Directorate, from whom he received the Outstanding Professional Service Award in 1998. Jim was also named the Outstanding Student Affairs Professional in Virginia that year by the Virginia Association of Student Personnel Administrators. His professional interests include college student personal and career development, academic performance and retention, and, most recently, designing learning objectives and assessing student learning as a result of interaction with Student Affairs offices and programs. He has a wide range of interest and experience in the development of surveys, assessment instruments, and the use of focus groups on college campuses.

J. WORTH PICKERING Worth Pickering is Director of University Assessment in Institutional Research and Assessment and adjunct Associate Professor at Old Dominion University where he has worked for the 20 years. He has a BA in Psychology from Guilford College and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. in counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Worth’s duties in IRA involve designing assessment plans; collecting data using surveys, focus groups, and other instruments, and consulting with faculty and staff regarding their assessment plans and data collection. In addition to his full-time duties at Old Dominion University, he has taught graduate courses in qualitative and quantitative research methods, college student and adult development, and career development in the counselor education program. Worth has authored or co-authored 19 publications and presented or co-presented more than 30 papers in the areas of student development, career development, assessment, and human relations. His most recent publication was a New Directions in Institutional Research monograph entitled Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Researchers to Improve Institutional Effectiveness that he co-edited with Gary Hanson explaining student affairs research to institutional researchers. Worth is an active member of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) in which he served on the Membership Services and Interests Core Council. Prior to that he was chair of the Assessment for Student Development Commission.

 C. ANTHONY MACERA

 STEPHEN C. ZERWAS