Vision

The Evaluation Center is committed to advancing the theory, practice, and utilization of evaluation through research, education, service, and leadership.

Mission

To fulfill this vision, The Evaluation Center has the following mission:

• Providing evaluation, research, and capacity-building services to a broad array of University, public, community-based, national, and international organizations to assist them in assessing and improving their programs
• Conducting research on evaluation supported by federal grants to contribute to the evaluation knowledge base and to advancing theory and methodology of evaluation
• Engaging in academic leadership by publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, by presenting on cutting-edge evaluation issues, and through service to professional organizations and scholarly journals
• Administering the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation, which provides doctoral education and state-of-the-art research and evaluation opportunities for the next generation of evaluation scholars and practitioners

Values

The core values of The Evaluation Center are excellence, integrity, service orientation, professionalism, innovation, diversity, and scholarship.

Annual Reports

2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10

Affiliations

Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
CREATE
Michigan Association for Evaluation

History

The Evaluation Center was founded by Daniel Stufflebeam at The Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to WMU in 1973. To learn more about the history, please visit these links:
The Founders
The Ohio State Years
The Western Years