The Team
Members of Murphy Educational Consulting LLC bring a wide range of skills, perspectives and experience to every project we undertake. The majority of MEC LLC’s team members have additional evaluation, teacher and research responsibilities in addition to the projects they are involved with through MEC LLC.
We bring our commitment to supporting organizations that educate today’s youth. We recognize the commitment, passion and energy that educators bring to their interactions with youth every day. We want to help increase the impact of those interactions by providing professionals and organizations with the data necessary to make critical decisions.
Because we are located in a first class internationally recognized urban center, we are able to team with academics and skilled professionals from many disciplines. We can expand our team rapidly for a specific project if we require additional content experts, data gatherers, technical writers, statisticians, graphic designers, web technicians, marketing experts, trainers, group facilitators, and others.
To learn more about the Murphy Educational Consulting LLC’s team members, click on any name below:
Research and Evaluation Consultant,
Founder of Murphy Educational Consulting LLC
MA Research Methodology, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
Twitter: Nora_Murphy
Email: nora@murphyeducational.com
Interests: Program Evaluation, Secondary Education, Urban Education, Facilitating Professional Development around: inquiry, self-reflection, data use,
Professional Memberships: American Evaluation Association, American Educational Research Association: Division H – Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools, Special Interest Group – Research on Evaluation
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Ph.D. Research Methodology, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
MA Research Methodology, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
MS Applied Statistics, University of Wyoming
E-mail: greg@murphyeducational.com
University of Kansas Website (link)
Interests: Structural Equation Modeling, Latent Growth Curve Analysis, Factor Analysis, and the Measurement of Anxiety and Depression
Professional Memberships: American Educational Research Association 2001-present, AERA Structural Equation Modeling SIG 2001-present, American Psychological Association, APA Division 5-Evalutation, Measurement, and Statistics 2001-present, National Council on Measurement in Education 2001-2006, Psychometric Society 2001-2005
Meghan Solomon
Instructor of Biology, Biology Department, Community College of Philadelphia
EdD Expected December 2009), Higher Education Management, University of Pittsburgh
MS Biology, Bucknell University
E-mail: meghan@murphyeducational.com
Interests: instructional, higher education strategic, higher education quality management
Professional Memberships: Society for College and University Planners
Assessment and Evaluation Coordinator, Perspectives Charter Schools
MPA (expected May 2009), Social Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: richard@murphyeducational.com
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/b12/a50
Interests: Urban education policy, nonprofit management, program development and evaluation, teacher certification, privatization, data-driven instruction
Data Analyst
Ph.D. (expected graduation date of December 2008), Anthropology, University of Arkansas.
M.A. Anthropology. Wichita State University
Email: trey@murphyeducational.com
Interests: Quantitative methods, hazard models, Bayesian analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Anthropological demography, skeletal biology and bioarchaeology (North America, Egypt, and the Near East), evolution of human life history, paleodemography and paleoepidemiology
Professional Memberships: American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society
