Computer Skills

Web design and HTML programming; Novice-level Perl and UNIX programming; Web-based collaborative technologies; Online surveys; Database design and Web-based implementation; Internet applications; Spreadsheet applications; SPSS; Graphic and Video-editing; Course management and distance education software

WORK & Research Experience

Assistant Professor – Adjunct                                      October 2007 – Present

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Human and Community Development

• Design and teach two online graduate-level courses, Educational Program Planning and Educational Research Methods, for preservice and inservice teachers in the Agricultural Education certification program using synchronous and asynchronous web-based tools.
• Supervise graduate students performing independent study projects.

 Assistant Professor – Adjunct                                  November 2007 – Present

University of Central Missouri-Warrensburg, Department of Career and Technology Education

• Design and teach the online graduate-level course, Assessment and Evaluation of Online Instruction, for preservice and inservice teachers in the Educational Technology certification program using synchronous and asynchronous web-based tools.

 Principal Consultant and Founder                             June 2006 – Present

InnovatEd Consulting

• Grant writing service for City University of New York through development of evaluation plan and research design, including foci, timeline, methods, and logic model.
• Coordination of Department of Education accountability system activities for charter schools across Massachusetts, involving site visit leadership, data collection and report writing, volunteer site-visitor trainings, and revision of site visit and renewal inspection protocols.
• Collaborative qualitative analysis project with a faculty partner at University of Central Missouri of digital portfolios from Kansas City, Missouri middle and high schools.
  Conclusions for an updated publication of Robins & Snow, 2005.
• Action planning and outcomes evaluation technical assistance for a nonprofit, elder day care center sponsored by United Way and Black Social Workers of Oklahoma.

Assistant Professor                                             August 2005 - June 2006

Office of Educational Resarch and Evaluation, School of Dental Medicine
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

• Design, implement, manage, and report a pilot study of school-wide introduction of web-based evaluation system.
• Hire staff, manage performance, lead meetings, develop organizational systems.
• Mentor staff in research and evaluation methodologies through assignment of readings and monthly inservice discussions.
• Support faculty with integrated curricula efforts, problem-based and inquiry-based pedagogies, and portfolio assessment methods.
• Guest lecture about program evaluation for social programs.

Evaluator, Project Manager                                            March 2004 - August 2005
Vancouver School District, Vancouver, Washington

• Contribute to evaluation instruments, interview and observation protocol designs for the Small Learning Communities grant initiative of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001in four site schools.
  
• Lead, coordinate, and conduct data collection with evaluation team, and point of contact for district site coordinators.
  
• Collaborate on formative evaluation report writing and presentations.

Evaluator                                                          February 2003 – October 2004
Department of Teaching and Learning, Washington State University-Vancouver

• Contribute to evaluation instruments, interview and observation protocol designs, and advised on technology implementation in public school settings.
  
• Design and implement web-based stakeholder questionnaires and think aloud protocol interviews.
  
• Assist with data collection in classrooms and formative and summative evaluation report writing for the laptop in elementary grades project.

Evaluator                                                           March 2003 – September 2003
Environmental Middle School, Portland Public School District, Portland, Oregon

• Coordinate and observe Community Technology Workshops sponsored by the Service Learning Digital Divide Impact Program.
  
• Design and implement evaluation design including instruments and interviews and write summative evaluation report.

Research Assistant                                                         January 2002 - May 2002
Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS), UIUC

• Research and develop content for an Assessment in an Inquiry Classroom web page for the Inquiry Page, a web site for educators interested in inquiry-based teaching and learning that provides resources, collaboration, and Inquiry Units.
  
• Foster an electronic community around assessment issues in an inquiry classroom utilizing asynchronous communication.

Teaching Assistant                                                             Fall 2000, Fall 2001
Department of Educational Psychology , UIUC

• Facilitate discussion section for the science pre-service teachers for EdPsy 391: Measurement and Assessment for Classroom Teachers.
• Grade all assignments, quizzes/exams, and determine students' final course grade.
  
• Design weekly lesson plans in relation to Professor's lecture and other discussion sections.
  
• Maintain course web page and moderate course web-based bulletin board.

Research Assistant                                                       August 2000 - August 2001
Department of Educational Psychology, UIUC

• Assist Professor with funded Faculty Fellows Program project studying construct validity in eighth-grade mathematics assessment (ISAT) test. 
  
• Implement think-aloud interviews and open-ended questionnaires to gather data from students of different ethnic backgrounds.
  
• Perform literature review, interpret and analyze data, write report, and formulate recommendations.

Research Assistant                                                     August 2000 - August 2001
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) & GSLIS, UIUC

• Maintain and provide support for Biology Student Workbench (BSW) project web site and collaborative efforts.
  
• Perform literature review and contribute to writing a journal article for the National Science Foundation (NSF) on biocomplexity and technology in education.
  
• Develop further partnerships for the Inquiry Page, and try to create seamless interaction between them through web-based collaboration.
  
• Organize workshop for teachers relating to emerging technologies, library science, and the Inquiry Page for the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping schools. 

Evaluation Consultant                                              May 2000 - January 2001
Illinois Virtual Campus, Urbana (at UIUC)

• Work as evaluator with other evaluator to design formative, knowledge-generating evaluation.
  
• Create evaluation instruments; implement evaluation; collect data; interpret and analyze data; write report, and present paper.

Graduate Assistant                                                               March 1999 - June 2000
Great Lakes Region Pollution Prevention Roundtable, Champaign (at UIUC)

• Design and create educational/informational web sites regarding lake ecology, sustainable development, mercury, and Great Lakes pollution prevention.
• Manage fifteen list-servers for pollution prevention issues and web-accessible member directory database of over eighty members.
• Write and edit pollution prevention newsletter articles.

Graduate Assistant                                                               January - May 1998
Career Services Center, UIUC

• Coordinated workshops with varying leaders and up to 18 participants.
  
• Counseled students in their career process.
  
• Wrote and updated educational materials while coordinating web site development.

Research Assistant                   August 1995 - May 1996, August 1997 - May 1998
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences , UIUC

• Conceptualized, developed, and began writing ecological education curriculum for a CD-ROM prototype for primary level public school students (Master’s thesis).

Graduate Assistant                                                                          January 2000 - August 2000
Campus Recycling, University of Illinois

• Designed and created educational/informational Web sites regarding recycling efforts on the University of Illinois campus and about pollution prevention in general.
• Answered informational  questions by telephone and the Internet, and prepared waste management reports.

Education Coordinator                                                            August 1995-June 1997
Common Ground Food Co-op, Champaign

• Designed, coordinated, researched, and implemented Product Labeling Project.
• Answered questions regarding cooperatives, environmental issues, nutrition, and food politics and organized workshops and speakers. 
• Developed and maintained Co-op educational resources including new member handbook and brochures.
• Coordinated multiple core-workers involving on-going Co-op education projects.
• Supervised Co-op daily operations collectively with five other coordinators.

 

Environmental Educator/Program Leader                                          May-August 1995
Urbana Park District, Urbana

• Designed daily lesson plans that incorporated weekly ecological concept.
• Planned daily activities including crafts, songs, movement, and hikes.
• Responsible for group of 10-12 children of ages 9-12.

Related Research

Dissertation Research                                                       January 2002 - May 2003
Department of Curriculum &Instruction, UIUC

• Coordinated with classroom teachers and school principal to be present in the school and to introduce the electronic portfolio system, StoneSoup.
• Designed two phases of instrumental research plan including observations, questionnaires, observations and interviews (Think-alouds, focus groups, and individual) for a case study.
• Participated and observed multi-age middle school classroom activities for 4-7 hours per day for 3-5 days per week for Spring 2002, and continue to observe, train and assist teachers and student in using StoneSoup in 2002-2003 school year.
• Work across the eight classrooms in the school to implement and adapt StoneSoup for an eighth grade inquiry-based site-monitoring yearlong activity.

• Coordinated "Inquiry Teaching & Learning" workshop sponsored by NCREL, GSLIS, NCSA.
• Implemented and supervised grant money for Member Profile system development.
• Designed pages and helped to create structure of the Inquiry Page Web site Version 1.0, which won first place in the Technology Design Competition at Computers and Writing 2001 for the category of “Rhetoric and Writing in K-12 Education.” Systems were judged on design, operation, and educational value.

Presentations

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2004, October). Three innovative methods: Online surveys, video-stimulated focus groups. Professional development workshop at the Annual Oregon Program Evaluators Network Conference, Portland, OR.

Mabry, L., Snow, J. & Margolis, J. (2005, January). Blurring art/research and data collection/analysis boundaries.  Paper presentation accepted to Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies, Athens, Georgia.

Robins, J. & Snow, J. Z. (2005, July). Using portfolio items to assess information literacy. Paper presentation accepted to the annual meeting of the International Association of School Librarianship, Hong Kong, China.

Snow, J. Z. (2000, July). Collaborative technologies: The Inquiry Page and WebEx. Presentation at the Biology WorkBench undergraduate faculty workshop, Bringing Bioinformatics to Biology Education, San Diego State University, CA.

Snow, J. Z. (2002, August). The digital portfolio unit: A case study of an alternative assessment tool.  Paper presentation at the International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education, Samos Island, Greece.

Snow, J. Z. (2003, April). StoneSoup: A case study of a Web-based alternative assessment tool. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Classroom Assessment SIG, Chicago, IL.

Snow, J. Z. (2003, August). StoneSoup: An electronic portfolio system for learner-centered assessment. Paper presentation at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Biannual Conference, Padova, Italy.

Snow, J. Z. (2005, October). StoneSoup: An alternative assessment system connecting classroom assessment with public school accountability. Paper presentation at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, K-12 Education TIG, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Snow, J. Z. (2007, November). Evaluative learningand technology use in educational innovation programs. Paper presentation accepted at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies TIG, Baltimore, Maryland.

Snow, J. Z. & Buell, J. (2001, April). Evaluating a statewide virtual campus: The IVC experience. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Division H, Seattle, WA.

Snow, J. Z. & Mabry, L. (2004, November). Evaluating personalization of learning in a standards-based reform environment. Paper presentation at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, K-12 Education TIG, Atlanta, Georgia.

Snow, J. Z. & Mabry, L. (2005, April). Individual laptop computers to support learning of high-risk elementary students and classroom culture change. Paper presentation accepted to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Division C, Section 7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Snow, J. Z. & Robins, J. (2003, March). StoneSoup: Architecture connecting learning & assessment in K12 schools. Poster accepted to the Annual Information Architecture Summit sponsored by American Society for Information Science &Technology, Portland, OR.

Snow, J. Z., Won, M., & Engelsen, K. (2000, March). Biology WorkBench for educators. Presentation at the annual technology conference of the Charleston Regional Office of Education, Charleston, IL.

Publications

Buell, J. & Snow, J. Z. (2000). Illinois Virtual Campus: A Knowledge-generating evaluation report. Report to Illinois Virtual Campus.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2003). Evaluation of Cooltown spring 2003: Full technical report. Report to Vancouver School District, WA.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2004). Evaluation of a laptop program for high-risk students learning in a standards-based reform environment. Paper presented at the Annual Oregon Program Evaluators Network Conference, Portland, OR.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2004). Evaluation of Smaller Learning Communities Grant Program year 1: Full technical report. Report to Vancouver School District, WA.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2005). Evaluation of Cooltown: Summative technical report. Report to Vancouver School District, WA.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2005). Evaluation of Smaller Learning Communities Grant Program year 2: Full technical report. Report to Vancouver School District, WA.

Mabry, L. & Snow, J. Z. (2006). Laptops for high-risk students: Empowerment and personalization in a standards-based learning environment. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 32 (4), 289-310.

Robins, J. & Snow, J. Z. (2004).  StoneSoup: Designing in a classroom context using a form-based system. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, SIG-Education and the World Wide Web, San Diego, CA.

Ryan, K. E., Snow, J. Z., Lin, C. & Arbuthnot, K. (2002). Investigating test item response processes for gender and ethnic groups on high-stakes standards-based assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Division D, New Orleans, LA.

Snow, J. Z. (1995). Ecological recipes for everyday living. Champaign, IL: Central States Education Center.

Snow, J. Z. (1998). EcoLit: Multimedia ecological education for primary level students. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Snow, J. Z. (2002). The digital portfolio unit: A case study of an alternative assessment tool.  In K. Fernstrom (Ed.), 3^rd Annual Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (pp. 557-566), Athens, Greece: National and Kapodistrian University.

Snow, J. Z. (2003). StoneSoup: An alternative assessment system connecting classroom assessment with public school accountability.   Paper accepted to the Canadian Evaluation Society Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Snow, J. Z. (2003). StoneSoup: Technology connecting learning and assessment in environmental education.  Paper accepted to the North American Association of Environmental Education Annual Conference, Anchorage, AK.

Snow, J. Z. (2005). StoneSoup: Technology innovation, introduction, and use to support learner-centered education. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Snow, J. Z., Bruce, B. C. & Thakkar, U. (2000). Evaluation of Biology Workbench faculty workshops. Unpublished manuscript, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 Wein, T. I. & Snow, J. Z. (2001). Virtually Jewish: An Internet tutorial from a Jewish perspective. Journal of Religious and Theological Information, 2 (3/4), 203-214. [Special Issue] M. Stover (Ed.) Theological Librarians and the Internet: Implications for Practice.

UIUC College of Education Dissertation Completion Support (2003-04)

UIUC Graduate College On-Campus Dissertation Research Grant (2002)

UIUC Graduate College Conference Travel Grant Award (2002)

Phi Kappa Delta Mini-Grant (2000)
Member Profile database directory development for Inquiry Page collaboratory.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory Award (2000)
Teaching & Learning Through Inquiry: A Workshop for Educators and Librarians. 

Associations

American Evaluation Association, present member and reviewer since 2002. 

National Council on Measurement in Education, present member since 2003.

Oregon Professional Evaluators Network, Council Student Representative since 2004.

North American Association of Environmental Education, present member since 1997.

Environmental Education Association of Illinois, member 1998-2002.