This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Ernest House and I’ve been writing about social justice and democratic evaluation for four decades. Barry MacDonald was an early colleague, ally, and friend in developing these ideas. He directed the …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Mark W. Lipsey, Director of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. No one such as myself who was around in the 1970s when program evaluation came of age could fail …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Jennifer Greene, a former AEA President and former co-editor of New Directions for Evaluation. Egon Guba, as both a scholar and a person, left an enduring transformative legacy to the field …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). I am Rodney Hopson, Professor of Education Policy and Evaluation at George Mason University and former (2012) President of AEA. Asa G. Hillard III (Baffour Amankwatia II), is one of the evaluation pioneers documented …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Mel Mark, a former AEA President and former editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. Don Campbell used pithy phrases to communicate complex philosophical or methodological issues. My favorite was: …
This is the beginning of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Sara Miller McCune, Co-founder and Chair of Sage Publications. In 1975, Sage published the 2-volume Handbook of Evaluation Research co-edited by Marcia Guttentag. That Handbook helped establish Evaluation as a distinct field of …
AEA365 Curator note: Today, along with the next two Saturdays will be part of a very special two-week series. My name is Michael Quinn Patton of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and former AEA president. In conjunction with Memorial Day in the USA (May 30) I am coordinating and editing two weeks of AEA365 contributions from distinguished evaluation …
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Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group. One of the reasons why I wanted to start this TIG was to broaden the military’s understanding of what program evaluation is and broaden program evaluator’s understandings of what the military community is. While there …
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I am Len Bickman, AEA Past-President, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, and currently Research Professor, Center for Children and Families, Florida International University and President, Feedback Research Institute. Today, I am offering lessons from a quarter-century old evaluation widely known as the Fort Bragg Evaluation. I examined the effectiveness of mental health services delivered in a …
Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group. I am posting this content on community-based participatory research in the military on behalf of a colleague. U.S. Service Members are frequently asked to take surveys from both local installations as well as the Department …
