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 …

With a lack of consensus of what evaluation is within the field of evaluation, there is a
difficulty in communicating to nonevaluators what evaluation is and how evaluation differs …

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 …

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 challenge and opportunity for the field of evaluation is to prepare evaluators with
sophisticated interpersonal competence alongside technical research skills. This article …

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 …

This chapter addresses using the 2018 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluator
Competencies to structure evaluator education and training, the benefits of doing so, and the …

Surveys of two independent random samples of American Evaluation Association (AEA)
members were conducted to investigate application of the logic of evaluation in their …

Evaluator education programs have developed to help support the growth of professional
evaluators and improve evaluation practice. Empirical research has described where and …

To progress as a field, evaluators must be able to describe their work to nonevaluators, and
to persuade an audience they have something unique and valuable to offer. Yet anecdotal …