program evaluation standards

PE Standards Week: Connecting Measurement, Research, and Evaluation (An Educational Perspective) by Juan D’Brot

Greetings! My name is Juan D’Brot, Senior Associate at the Center for Assessment. I serve as the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) representative for the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation and will be discussing the relationship among measurement, research, and evaluation. My first job out of graduate school (Research and Evaluation …

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PE Standards Week: Evaluating Evaluation with Standards or Evaluating Evaluator with Competencies by Sandra Ayoo

I am Sandra Ayoo, a graduate of the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. As an accidental evaluator, I practiced program evaluation as a sideline job on a part-time basis for a couple of years until 2008 when I decided to make it a full-time job. Interestingly, I had no idea that …

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PE Standards Week: A Delicate Balancing Act: Encouraging Stakeholders’ Participation in an Emotionally Charged Context by Rosalie Hirch & Brandi Geisinger

Hello! We are Rosalie Hirch and Brandi Geisinger, from the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University. Sometimes we work with emotional situations for students who feel vulnerable, especially if they’re from traditionally marginalized groups. As a result, when we conduct organizational climate studies, we often find unique challenges in getting students …

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PE Standards Week: Evaluation Standards and Quality Evaluation Practice by Michael Harnar

My name is Michael Harnar. I have been in the evaluation discipline for about 16 years and for the last 2.5 years I’ve been an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. I believe that the core of evaluation is about providing judgments of value and that Michael Scriven’s …

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PE Standards Week: Lessons Learned from Developing Program Theory, Applying Culturally Responsive Evaluation, and Integrating Program Evaluation Standards by Rodney Hopson & Aneta Cram

We are Rodney Hopson, former (2012) AEA President and Professor of Evaluation (Educational Psychology: QUERIES) at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and Aneta Cram, Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and AEA Program Chair for the Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group. In a recently published article for Evaluation Matters …

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PE Standards Week: (Re)Introducing the JCSEE Program Evaluation Standards by Brad Watts

Hello! My name is Brad Watts, Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan. In addition to my duties as a professional evaluator, I am also currently serving as Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), the organization responsible for developing, reviewing, and approving evaluation standards in North America, including …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: The Program Evaluation Standards – Not Just for the Bookshelf… by Thanos Patelis and Emily Dickinson

Greetings from Thanos Patelis and Emily Dickinson! We are researchers at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), a non-profit research organization. We are happy to talk about a favorite Rad Resource of ours—The Program Evaluation Standards. Every time we undertake a new project, we are reminded of the multiple demands that come with an evaluation. …

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Labor Day Week: Melvin Hall on Honoring Karen Kirtkhart

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Greetings, I am Melvin Hall, a current AEA Board Member and program evaluation specialist for over forty years. I have had many excellent mentors throughout my career including Tom Hastings, Bob Stake, Terry Denny, and …

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PD Presenters Week: Barbara Howard, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt on Applying Standards to Enhance Evaluation

Who we are: Hello, my name is Barbara Howard, Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. My colleagues, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt, serve on the Joint Committee, which is a consortium of seventeen professional organizations, including AEA. Katherine Tibbetts is our AEA representative. We want to share our work …

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CREATE Week: Barbara B. Howard and Don Klinger on The Classroom Assessment Standards: Guidelines for Teacher Practice

We are Barbara B. Howard from Appalachian State University and Don Klinger of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. We are professors and work with the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.  We would like to report on the Classroom Assessment Standards that were developed by the  Joint Committee.  The Joint Committee uses a systematic process …

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