”Speak Up!” A Program for Teaching Communication Skills to Summer Un- dergraduate Researchers

Joanna Dickert is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research and National Fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University. In this role, she directly advises and supports undergraduate students through each phase of the research process beginning with proposal development through learning assessment and program evaluation. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Evaluation and Measurement at Kent State University. Through the alignment of a student-centered process with an evidence-based approach to making, she is interested in exploring how assessment and evaluation can optimize student learning.