Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Thomas A. Schwandt, Ph.d., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Presentation: "Re-storying evaluation: Evaluation as developing value"
Thomas A. Schwandt, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; editor emeritus of the American Journal of Evaluation; member, editorial board of Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research & Practice. His research has focused on the role of values in evaluation and social research, as well as on evidence-based reasoning and data-driven decision making. His most recent book is co-authored with Emily Gates, Evaluating and Valuing in Social Research (Guilford Press, 2021). Other publications include Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice (Stanford University Press, 2015); Evaluation Practice Reconsidered (Peter Lang, 2002); with Edward Halpern, Linking Auditing and Meta-evaluation(Sage, 1988); and, with Ken Prewitt and Miron Straf, Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy (National Academies Press, 2012). He has co-edited Exploring Evaluator Role and Identity (with K. Ryan, Information Age Press, 2002) and Evaluating Educational Reforms: Scandinavian Perspectives (with P. Haug, Information Age Press, 2003). In 2002, he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association for his contributions to evaluation theory. He currently works as an independent evaluation advisor.
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Re-storying Evaluation? Evaluating as Developing Value
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM ET