Pamela Garrett has worked in the fields of graduate education and educational assessment and evaluation since 2002. She is currently the Director for the University Program Review and Accreditation (UPRA) Office in the Office of the Provost. In this capacity she fills a variety of roles including coordination of university-wide Academic Program Review, coordination of activities with the Higher Learning Commission, coordination of activities associated with specialized accreditations and Centers & Institutes at Arizona State University.
She taught the Preparing Future Faculty course, and collaborates on the writing of research proposals. Dr. Garrett served as a PI on a grant entitled “A Foundational Model for Postdoctoral Programs in Computer Science & Engineering at Large Universities,” funded by the Computing Research Association and NSF. She also served as a co-PI on the Connected Academics grant sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Modern Language Association. She managed the ASU Citizen Scientist-Engineer @ K-12 Schools Research Project from 2007-2011, funded by Science Foundation Arizona. She also managed the Bisgrove Postdoctoral and Early Tenure Track Scholar program, also funded by Science Foundation Arizona.
Dr. Garrett earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Measurement, Statistics and Methodological Studies in 2012.
For her dissertation, “Toward a More Explicit Doctoral Pedagogy,” Dr. Garrett studied doctoral students and their faculty advisors/mentors; examining the advising/mentoring relationship as it relates to Ph.D. completion or attrition. Dr. Garrett utilized a component, mixed method design to study a large segment of the graduate student population through survey methods and quantitative analysis, followed by qualitative interviews with a smaller set of doctoral students and their departmental graduate support personnel.