The notion of using program theory (PT) in evaluation has become a mainstream idea in the evaluation discourse, and numerous supposed advantages are associated with it. Conceptually, it has been argued that evaluation approaches ignoring PT treat their evaluands as black boxes, as they pay no...
Hense-TowardsTheoryUsingv6.pdf
The Program Evaluation Standards, issued by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, aim to enhance the quality of the professional practice of evaluation. However, three decades and two major revisions after publication of their first edition, little is known beyond...
Hense - PES model v6_web1.pdf
This briefing book was prepared in December of 2011 by me in consultation with AEA's Evaluation Policy Task Force and AEA Executive Director Susan Kistler at the request of the Board's internal working group charged with overseeing the EPTF evaluation. It was prepared as part of the...
aea11.eptf.eval.briefing.book.121411.pdf