What do we know about evaluator education? A review of peer-reviewed publications (1978–2018)

JA King, S Ayoo - Evaluation and Program Planning, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews peer-reviewed writings on evaluator education from 1978 to 2018.
Despite the topic's presumed importance, scholars to date have not extensively addressed it …

Opportunities and challenges ahead for university-based evaluator education programs, faculty, and students

JM LaVelle, SI Donaldson - American Journal of Evaluation, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The profession of evaluation continues to grow, generating more demand for evaluation
services than can be fulfilled by the supply of well-trained evaluation practitioners. In this …

The current state of evaluator education: A situation analysis and call to action

AM Gullickson, JA King, JM LaVelle… - Evaluation and program …, 2019 - Elsevier
Education is critically important for the maintenance and growth of programme evaluation
and its emergence as a profession. This position paper presents evaluator education as an …

Educating evaluators 1976–2017: An expanded analysis of university-based evaluation education programs

JM LaVelle - American Journal of Evaluation, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
2015 was designated the International Year of Evaluation, suggesting that evaluation has an
important role to play in service of positive global ideals. It is vital to recognize the critical …

The state of preparing evaluators

JM LaVelle, SI Donaldson - New Directions for Evaluation, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter begins with an analysis of the prior status of the preparation of evaluators and
what is going on currently in that regard. The varied, noticeably diverse, and growing options …

Pedagogical considerations for the teaching of evaluation

JM LaVelle, C Lovato, CL Stephenson - Evaluation and program planning, 2020 - Elsevier
Pedagogy and andragogy refer to the philosophical and empirical assumptions that
instructors make about what and how people learn. These assumptions guide much of the …

Evaluation logic in practice: Findings from two empirical investigations of American Evaluation Association members

S Ozeki, CLS Coryn, DC Schröter - Evaluation and Program Planning, 2019 - Elsevier
Surveys of two independent random samples of American Evaluation Association (AEA)
members were conducted to investigate application of the logic of evaluation in their …

Factors inhibiting the maturity and praxis of Made in Africa Evaluation

TJ Chirau, M Ramasobana - African Evaluation Journal, 2022 - journals.co.za
Background Monitoring and evaluation in Africa as a practice and discipline has been
dominated by Global North perspectives. There have been efforts within the monitoring and …

An empirical examination of evaluation's presence in the undergraduate curriculum in the United States

JM LaVelle, N Sabarre… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Evaluator education programs have developed to help support the growth of professional
evaluators and improve evaluation practice. Empirical research has described where and …

[PDF][PDF] Communicating about evaluation: A conceptual model and case example

B Montrosse-Moorhead, AP Bellara… - Journal of …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Background: Despite consensus within the evaluation community about what is distinctive
about evaluation, confusion among stakeholders and other professions abounds. The …