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Mary Stutzman, Ph.D.  Director, FSU Survey Research Laboratory

Dr. Mary Stutzman serves as the full-time Director of the FSU Survey Research Laboratory, the official survey center of FSU and part of the College of Social Science Data Center.  She also teaches the Survey Research Practicum as part of the Summer Institute in Social Science Research Methods at Florida State University.

Dr. Stutzman has over 20 years experience in public program evaluation, applied research, state government work, and survey research.  She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.  As the former methodologist for the Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability, she has extensive experience with state programs, designing and delivering training in applied methods, graphical presentations, and survey research.

Between 1978 and 1986, Dr. Stutzman was an assistant professor in the FSU Department of Public Administration, where she taught public program evaluation and research methods.  She has designed and taught a course in research methods for executive managers.  She conducted a number of major surveys sponsored by grants from state agencies while she was an assistant professor.

Educational Background:
Ph.D., M.A., Political Science,
Michigan State University

M.S., Community Development
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

B.A., Political Science
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Research Experience:
Methodologist, Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability (OPPAGA)
Formerly Program Audit Division, Office of the Auditor General (1986-2000)

Provided in-house consulting, training in methods and surveys, project support
Planned, conducted, and supervised mail, web-based, and telephone surveys
Team member-performed major data design and analysis support.

Example Reports:
  • Subjects of Child Protective Investigations: Survey Results and Case Characteristics (December 1998)
  • Review of the Workforce Development System, Report No.99-34, February 2000
  • Helped design a number of major survey efforts: Telephone Survey of 600 High School Dropouts; 1,000 Purchasers of Prepaid Tuition Contracts, Senior Manager Survey; Survey of Child Abuse Counselors, Client Satisfaction Surveys

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Florida State University (1978-1986)
  • Taught research methods and public program evaluation courses
  • Co-Principal Investigator for Survey of Older Workers to determine work and retirement patterns for Floridians 55 and over. $80,000 grant from Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services (1986) Random-digit-dial survey of over 2,000 Floridians over the age of 55.
  • Principal Investigator for major marketing survey to determine interest in Social Health Maintenance Organizations by Floridians 65 + Years Old; $75,000 grant from Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services; Working with Brandeis University Health Policy Center (1985). A random-digit-dial telephone survey of over 2,000 Floridians 65 and over stratified according to four regions.
  • Principal Investigator for needs assessment survey for the 75 and older population: $65,000 grant from the Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services and the State University System (1984). A demonstration using a telephone survey to assess the needs of the elderly; a disproportionate stratified random-digit-dial telephone survey of over 1,400 Floridians statewide over the age of 75.

Selected Professional Activities

Reviewer for Gary Henry's Graphing Data: Techniques for Display and Analysis. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications, 1995.

Reviewer for Gary Henry's Practical Sampling. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications, 1990. My 75 + Study of Florida's Elderly provides a major example in this book for a RDD sampling strategy

"Qualitative Methods: Collection and Analysis", Workshop with co-trainer Dr. Glenn Mitchell, sponsored by Southeast Evaluation Association, Tallahassee, Florida, October, 2000.

"Technology & Surveys: New Tricks for Old Dogs", Presentation with Jenny Wilhelm, 2000 Southeast Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida, January 2000.

"How Am I Doing? Client Satisfaction Surveys as Performance Measures". Presenter: 1997 American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, San Diego California, November, 1997.

"Surveys in the Public Sector: Problems & Solutions." Paper Presented at the 1992 American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 1992.

"Sampling in the Public Sector: A Workshop". Training provided to the Arizona Office of the Auditor General, February, 1992.

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