This paper addresses the theoretical and practical question of how to specify criteria used in
educational evaluations. People and groups involved in and affected by an educational …

The ultimate goal of using the 2018 AEA Evaluator Competencies is effective program
evaluation practice. This chapter suggests how the competencies can be used to enhance …

This chapter tells the story of American Evaluation Association's (AEA's) Competencies Task
Force. During the 1990s, the AEA Board addressed issues related to the professionalization …

The final chapter summarizes the content of Parts I and II, addresses issues raised by our
critical friends in Chapters 4 and 8, and offers multiple steps that the newly formed American …

Scientific-based evaluation has become a widely accepted instrument of quality assurance
for civil protection (CP) exercises. To enhance reliability and richness of evaluation data and …

Scholarship from the sociology of professions has illustrated the important role that
autonomy must play in professional relationships, especially in technically-specific and …

Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is an area of practice that many evaluators engage in.
Previous ECB scholars have described ECB as distinct from the practice of evaluation …

Evaluation is multiform: a field of applied research, it is one of the multiple management
functions of a public or non-profit administration, but it is also a tool for advocacy and social …

The evidence continuum is a five-domain model for building evidence through needs
assessment, program theory, process evaluation, outcomes and impact evaluation, and …

Background: The adoption and use of effective, legally defensible, and ethically sound
practices relies on the successful dissemination of evidence-based practices and …