The American Evaluation Association (AEA) is a professional association for
evaluators and those with a professional interest in the field of
evaluation
Evaluation is a
systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to ...
, including
practitioners,
faculty, students, funders, managers, and government decision-makers. , AEA has approximately 7057 members from all 50
US states and over 60 other countries.
[AEA: About Us http://www.eval.org/aboutus/organization/aboutus.asp . Retrieved on 2009-05-08]
Mission
The American Evaluation Association's mission is to:
* Improve evaluation practices and methods
* Increase evaluation use
* Promote evaluation as a profession and
* Support the contribution of evaluation to the generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action.
Guiding Principles for Evaluators
AEA Publishes th
AEA: Guiding Principles for Evaluators which set expectations for evaluators in the areas of: (a)
systematic inquiry, (b)
competence, (c)
integrity
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. In ...
/honesty, (d) respect for people, and (e) responsibilities for general and
public welfare
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifical ...
.
Publications
AEA sponsors two journals. The American Journal of Evaluation is published quarterly through
SAGE Publications and includes individually
peer-reviewed articles on a range of topics in the field
New Directions for Evaluationis a peer-reviewed thematic
sourcebook
A sourcebook is a collection of writings on a subject that is intended to be a basic introduction to the topic presented.
Academic use
In American universities, a sourcebook, either a standard one or a custom collection, may function as a supplem ...
published quarterly through
Jossey-Bass/Wiley, with each issue focusing on a different topic or aspect of evaluation.
Topical Interest Groups
, AEA has 51 topically focused subgroups. Each subgroup develops a strand of content for the association's annual conference, and works to build a community of practice through various means.
*
Advocacy and Policy Change
* Behavioral Health
ormerly Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health*
Assessment in Higher Education
* Business, Leadership, and Performance
* Cluster, Multi-Site and Multi-Level Evaluation
* Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation
* College Access Programs
* Community Psychology
* Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics
* Crime and Justice
* Data Visualization and Reporting
* Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations
* Disaster and
Emergency Management Evaluation
* Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies
* Environmental Program Evaluation
* Evaluating the Arts and Culture
* Evaluation Managers and Supervisors
* Evaluation Policy
* Evaluation Use
* Extension Education Evaluation
*
Feminist Issues in Evaluation
* Government Evaluation
* Graduate Student and New Evaluators
* Health Evaluation
* Human Services Evaluation
* Independent Consulting
*
Indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
Peoples in Evaluation
* Integrating Technology into Evaluation
* Internal Evaluation
* International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation
*
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues
* Mixed Methods in Evaluation
* Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation
* Needs Assessment
* Non-Profits and Foundations Evaluation
* Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
*
Prek-12 Educational Evaluation
* Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation
* Program Design
* Qualitative Methods
* Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design
* Research on Evaluation
* Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation
* Social Network Analysis
* Social Work
* Stem Evaluation
* Systems in Evaluation
* Teaching of Evaluation
* Theories of Evaluation
* Translational Research Evaluation
* Youth Focus Evaluation
History
Merger of ERS and ENet
In 1986, the Evaluation Research Society and Evaluation Network merged to become the American Evaluation Association. The two associations had been conducting joint annual conferences for several years when ERS President Joseph Wholey contacted Evaluation Network President Michael Hendricks to suggest a formal merger of the two organizations.
[Evaluation Practice, 1986 (7), 107-110) http://aje.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/7/1/107. Retrieved 2009-05-01]
References
External links
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