Connie C. Schmitz, PhD is an educational psychologist by training. She holds both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in education, specializing in curriculum development, learner assessment, program evaluation, and education research. In her 35+ year career, she has worked in academic medicine at the University of Minnesota, most recently as Associate Professor and Director of Education Research and Development in the Department of Surgery. For nine years she ran her own consulting business. During that time she collaborated with others to evaluate education, health, and human services programs for national foundations and government agencies. As a scholar, she has 30 publications and 45 technical reports. She has worked as a consultant for the National Center since 2014. Her roles there have included leading an interprofessional team to develop a cross-school evaluation of the University of Minnesota’s “1Health Curriculum” (Sick, Schmitz & Brandt, 2016); co-authoring the Center’s primer on measurement (Schmitz & Cullen, 2015); the re-design and launch of the Center’s measurement instrument collection; and co-authoring volumes 2-5 of the National Center’s Practical Guides on assessment and evaluation.  She continues to lead programming on assessment and evaluation for the Center and serves as the editor for the Measurement Collection