Current Professional Activities
Current work activities include evaluating New York State’s
food stamp nutrition education program, Eat Smart New York.
Current Research Activities
Specific research interests include the application of
systems thinking to the evaluation of educational and/or social welfare
programs; parent and child well-being; the impact of welfare policies on
children and families; and the importance of both father’s involvement and
child support policies for children in single parent families.
Current Extension Activities
Extension activities include evaluating the New York State
Nutrition Education Program, Eat Smart New York; and preparing research briefs
on nutrition evaluation, models of program implementation and systemic
approaches to program evaluation.
Biography
Keywords evaluation, policy analysis, families, child and well being
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Selected Publications Cabrera, D., & Colosi, L. – Thinking at Every Desk. The Research Institute for Thinking in Education, September 2009.
Cabrera, D., & Colosi, L. (2009) "The library is the place:
Knowledge and thinking, thinking and knowledge." Teacher Librarian.
June 2009, pp. 24-29.
Cabrera, D., Colosi, L., & Lobdell, C. (2008) "Systems Thinking."Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning. Vol 31, No 3, pp. 299-310.
Cabrera, D. & Colosi, L. (2008) "Distinctions, systems,
relationships, andperspectives (DSRP): A theory of thinking and of
things."Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning. Vol 31, No 3, pp. 311-317.