Experienced evaluator for numerous research projects & programs funded by governments and private entities for 15 years.
Highly Credentialed with 4 post-baccalaureate degrees in Evaluation, Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods, Data Analysis, Assessment, Curriculum Design, Applied Linguistics, & Educational Leadership Capacity Building.
Member of Evaluator Professional Organizations: American Evaluation Association & Ohio Program Evaluator’s Group.
Director of Doctoral Program in Organizational Studies, and Associate Professor of Statistics, Research, & Educational Leadership in the Department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations within College of Health, Education, and Human Services at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
Past President & Executive Director of Ohio Council of Professors of Educational Administration.
Licensed Educational Administrator in Ohio: 2 School-District Level Administrative Licenses (Educational Research & Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development), Elementary & High School Principal Licenses, and K-12 Teaching License with ESL endorsement.
Dr. Miura is passionate about capacity building among next generation evaluation professionals through mentoring and coaching in program evaluation certification courses. She teaches research method courses for masters and doctoral level students including research design, multivariate statistics, structural equation modeling, qualitative research, participatory action research, and leadership.
As an evaluator, she has developed logic models and evaluation plans, sought and developed instruments to measure outcomes for projects, made observations, conducted focus group and interviews, collected and analyzed data, and provided comprehensive evaluation reports.