Ensminger, David

Degrees

• PhD, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Program Areas

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Teaching and Learning
• Research Methods

Research Interests

• Organizational Change
• Organizational Learning
• Evaluation Practice and Teaching
• Student Learning

Professional & Community Affiliations

• American Evaluation Association

Courses Taught

• Sequence 1( TLSC 110, 120, 130): Introduction to the Profession
• CIEP 488: Participatory Action Research in Schools and Communities
• RMTD 406: Program Evaluation

Awards

• Loyola University Chicago, School of Education Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017)

Selected Publications

• Paydon, M. E., Ensminger, D. C., Dekluyver, M. (in press) Applying evaluative inquiry: Experience and recommendations from the field. Performance Improvement.
• Mahmoud, F., Sullivan, T.P., Ensminger, D.C., Aziz, A., Alsabban, A., Demos, T.C., Lim Dunham, J.E., (2020) Performance-based assessment in a pre-clinical medical school chest radiology curriculum: Student achievement and attitudes. Journal of Contemporary Medical Education, 10(3), 94-101.
• Ferrell, E., W., Ensminger, D.C., Coleman, E., (2019). Changing the doctoral student-dissertation chair relationship through the article dissertation format. Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 31(2) 166-185.
• Wade, J., Baltman, M., Kallemeyn, L., Ensminger, D.C., Rempert, T. (2016) Unified outcomes project: Using coaching and communities of or practice to build evaluation capacity. The Foundation Review
• Lim-Dunham, J.,E., Ensminger, D., C., McNulty, J., A., Hoyt, A., M., and Chandrasekhar, A., J. (2016). A vertically integrated on-line radiology curriculum developed as a cognitive apprenticeship: Impact on student performance and learning. Academic Radiology, 23(2), 252-261.
• Ensminger, D. C., Kallemeyn, L. M., Rempert, T. Wade, J., Polanin, M. (2015) Case study of an evaluation coaching model: Exploring the role of the evaluator. Evaluation and Program Planning. 49. 124-136.
• Gaubatz, J., Ensminger, D.C. (2015) Department chairs as change agents: Leading change in resistant environments. Educational Management Administration and Leadership. 1-23.