Reflect on your evaluation knowledge, skills, and dispositions using the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators Self-Assessment Tool
The Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators covers the following areas:
1. Professional Practice – Fundamental norms and values of evaluation practice
2. Systematic Inquiry – Technical aspects of evaluation practice
3. Situational Analysis – Unique interests, issues, and contextual circumstances of evaluation
4. Project Management – “Nut and bolts” of evaluation work
5. Reflective Practice – One’s own evaluation expertise and need for growth
6. Interpersonal Competence – “People skills” necessary for evaluation practice
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Further reading on the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators:
Ghere, G., King, J. A., Stevahn, L., & Minnema, J. (2006). A Professional Development Unit for Reflecting on Program Evaluator Competencies. American Journal of Evaluation, 27(1), 108-123.
King, J. A., Stevahn, L., Ghere, G., & Minnema, J. (2001). Toward a taxonomy of essential evaluator competencies. American Journal of Evaluation, 22, 229-247.
Stevahn, L., King, J. A., Ghere, G., Minnema, J. (2005). Establishing Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators. American Journal of Evaluation, 26: 43-59.