Dr. Sharon Dannels

Sharon Dannels, PhD is an Associate Professor Emerita of Educational Research. During her tenure at GW, she also served as Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies and as the department chair for the Department of Educational Leadership. Her undergraduate work was in sociology and social work and she holds master’s degrees in clinical social work and psychology. Her PhD is in experimental psychology (biological basis of personality) and she completed post-doctoral study in internal medicine.

Her research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has contributed to the research and served as the evaluator for a wide range of grant-funded projects--training interpreters to work with deaf clients with atypical language; work of the Educational Facilities Clearinghouse; emergency preparedness in public schools; and leadership programs designed to develop the leadership potential of midcareer women faculty in academic medicine, engineering, and STEM fields in higher education. She has also consulted with the Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Department of Accountability.

Dr. Dannels taught doctoral-level statistics and research design courses and has served on a large number of doctoral dissertation committees. She wrote the chapter on research design for the widely used text The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Hancock & Mueller, Eds., 2010) and expanded the original text for the second edition (2019).