Graduate Education 1: Evaluation Education in the United States

Can Evaluation Be a Discipline?

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to understand how evaluation education program is different from other programs and to make clear the general structure of evaluation education programs which might be generalized globally. I examined and categorized the courses offered by 48 evaluation education programs in the U.S. that LaVelle and Donaldson have identified (2010). Then one doctoral program and one public policy program are reviewed in order to make clear new aspects of evaluation education program as a start-up discipline.