Ketevan Chachkhiani
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Mail code: 1811Campus: Tempe
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Ketevan Chachkhiani, as the Program Director, co-leads the implementation of ASU-led initiatives within the USAID-funded Educating the Future Program in Georgia, while managing cross-institutional integration and collaboration. The $14 million grant, awarded to Chemonics International, is implemented in partnership with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, which has received a $2.5 million sub-award. The program supports partner universities in Georgia by enhancing the quality of their teacher preparation and education leadership programs and strengthening their research capacity and outputs.
Ketevan Chachkhiani holds her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Arizona State University. Her research and professional interests are educational change and post-socialist transformations, teacher policies, teacher education and professional development, and educational leadership. For her Dissertation study, Ketevan explored how different forms of the control dimension of autonomy manifest in teachers’ classroom behavior and student achievement.
As part of the USAID, EU, World Bank, and UNICEF-funded programs, Ketevan has designed and led large-scale school reform initiatives and programs in Georgia and other post-socialist countries. Most recently, Ketevan supported the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia in developing a long-term sectoral strategy in general education. She also has extensive program evaluation experience. In collaboration with the ASU faculty, Ketevan has conducted mixed-methods evaluation studies of several reform interventions in Arizona public schools. Ketevan has also taught a masters-level course in research methods at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU. As an associate professor at East European University, she remotely teaches and advises Ph.D. students in the Education Sciences program.
- Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Evaluation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- M.A. in International Educational Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- M.A. in Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
- B.A. in International Relations, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Chachkhiani, K. (2023). The moderating role of teacher autonomy for classroom practices and student achievement: A cross-country analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Chachkhiani, K., & Tabatadze, S. (2023). Internationalization of research in Georgia: why to engage and with whom to engage?. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-11-2022-0187.
Chachkhiani, K., Palandjian, G., Silova, I., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2023). Pedagogies of Time: “Editing” Textbooks, Timelines, and Childhood Memories. Journal of Childhood Studies, 48(1), 111-125. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs202320568.
Anayatova, D., Chachkhiani, K., Hovsepian, S., Silova, I., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2023). Literacies of childhood and nation in the Anthropocene: Insights from (post) Soviet early literacy textbooks. In Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building (pp. 194-223). Routledge.
Tabatadze, S. & Chachkhiani, K. (2022). University-based research in Georgia. In Chankseliani, M., Fedyukin, I., & Frumin, I. (Eds.). Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_11.
Chachkhiani, K. (2022). Pre-service teacher education in Georgia: Situational analysis. Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia / World Bank: Georgia Innovation, Inclusion and Quality Project (I2Q).
Chachkhiani, K. (2022). In-service teacher professional development in Georgia: Situational Analysis. Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia / World Bank: Georgia Innovation, Inclusion and Quality Project (I2Q).
Chachkhiani, K., Koro, M., & Pivovarova, M. (2022). Evaluation Report of the College Promise program. Rosztoczy Foundation.
Chachkhiani, K., Koro, M., & Pivovarova, M. (2022). Evaluation Report of the BEE Project. ThinkLaw (CS Educational Services, LLC).
Chachkhiani, K. & Koro, M. (2022). Teacher autonomy as constructed: A discourse analysis of the Georgian national curricula. A paper presented at AERA 2022, San Diego, USA.
Pivovarova, M., Powers, J. M., & Chachkhiani, K. (2021). Is youth pessimism good for the environment? Insights from PISA 2015. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29, 126. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.4820.
Silova, I., Millei, Z., Chachkhiani, K., Palandjian, G., & Vitrukh, M. (2021). Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparative International Education: Monuments, Movements, and Metamorphoses. In T.D. Jules, R. Shields, & M. AM. Thomas (Eds.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. pp. 147-166). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Tabatadze, S. & Chachkhiani, K. (2021). COVID-19 and emergency remote teaching in the country of Georgia: Catalyst for educational change and reforms in Georgia? Educational Studies, 1-17. 10.1080/00131946.2020.1863806.
Garcia, D., Laczko-Kerr, I., Chachkhiani, K., Gibbs, N.P., Halkiyo, A., Kim, W.Y., Olsen, N., Rodriguez Martinez, S., Tewari, N. R., & Vitrukh, M. (2020). Evaluation report of the Professional Pathways Program for Mesa Public Schools. Mesa Public Schools.
Chachkhiani, K., Goebel, J., Gong, B., Palandjian, G., Pretti, E., Silova, I., & Vitrukh, M. (2019). Education and storytelling for earthly survival: ‘Becoming-With’ Donna Haraway. (A Sympoietic Movie Review). Comparative Education Review, 63(3), 457-459. https://doi.org/10.1086/704138.
Chachkhiani, K. (2015). Leading teacher learning circles: Guide for facilitators. (2nd ed). USAID Georgia.
Chachkhiani, K. (2015). School-based teacher evaluation system: Guide for school principals (2nd ed). USAID Georgia.
Kobakhidze, N., Chachkhiani, K., & Gabashvili, M. (2011). Guide for School Principals. National Centre for Teacher Professional Development.
Chachkhiani, K. & Tabatadze, S. (2010). Instructional Leadership - Guide for School Administrators. Centre for Civil Integration and Interethnic Relations.
Steiner-Khamsi, G. & Chachkhiani, K. (2008). Donor involvement analysis in education sector development in Kyrgyzstan: Analysis and Recommendations. UNICEF Kyrgyzstan.
Steiner-Khamsi, G., Harris-Van Keuren, C., Silova, I., & Chachkhiani, K. (2008). Decentralization and recentralization reforms: Their impact on teacher salaries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia. UNESCO.
Chachkhiani, K. (2007). Teacher salary reform in Georgia. Integrative Project. Teachers College, Columbia University.
Chachkhiani, K., Narindoshvili, M., Gogelia, V., Tutberidze, T., Zurabishvili, T., Gabisonia, T., Matiashvili, A. & Turmanidze, K. (2007). School management guide. Liberty Institute.
Narindoshvili, M., Chachkhiani, K., Janashia, N., & Tsagareishvili, M. (2006). University Management Guide. Liberty Institute.
Chachkhiani, K. (2005). The role of the educational system in the process of civil integration, in The Role of Educational System in the Process of Integration of Ethnic Minorities: Perspectives from Governmental and Nongovernmental Sectors. (pp. 34-50). CTC Georgia.