EVALUATION & ACCOUNTABILITY:
A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS

February 27-29, 2008, Tallahassee, Florida

Three Days with Dr. Daniel Stufflebeam
Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter

 

Ph.D. (1964), M.S. (1962) Purdue University; B.A. (1958), University of Iowa

Dr. Stufflebeam retired in 2007 as Distinguished University Professor at Western Michigan University (WMU). His early professional involvements included band director and wrestling coach in the Nora Springs, Iowa Public School District (1958-1960).  Following graduate school, he began his university career in 1963 as Director of The Ohio State University (OSU) Test Development Center. In 1965 the Test Development Center was converted to the OSU Evaluation Center in order to address the nationwide need for advancements in educational evaluation. He directed The Evaluation Center at OSU until moving it to WMU in 1973. He then directed The Evaluation Center at WMU through August, 2002.  He chaired the Phi Delta Kappa National Study Committee on Evaluation that produced the classic, 1971 text, Educational Evaluation and Decision making. He founded the national Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, chaired it during its first 13 years, and was the principal author of the original Joint Committee standards for program evaluation and personnel evaluation. He was also the founding director of the federally-supported, national Center for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Education (CREATE). In 2002, he designed WMU's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Evaluation, which enrolls students across a wide range of disciplines and service areas and from throughout the world. His more than $20 million in grants and contracts supported evaluation and research projects in such areas as: national and state achievement testing, school improvement, distance education, science and mathematics education, technology-based instruction, teacher education, continuing medical education, international development, Historically Black Colleges, housing and community and economic development, productivity of private colleges, teacher and administrator evaluation, Marine Corps personnel evaluation, reform of Ohio’s system of public education, metaevaluation, and the functioning of a Catholic Diocese. He directed the development of more than 100 standardized achievement tests, including eight forms of the GED tests. He has also served as advisor to many federal and state government departments, the United Nations, World Bank, Open Learning Australia, governments of Colombia and the Philippines, various charitable foundations, many school districts, and several universities. He has lectured and provided technical assistance in more than 20 countries. He served on the Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council of the US Government Accountability Office and the Boards of the American Evaluation Association and National Council on Measurement in Education.

Besides his contributions to the development and advocacy of the evaluation profession, Stufflebeam developed one of the first models for systematic evaluation, the CIPP Model for Evaluation (Context, Input, Process, and Product). His publications - which include 18 books and about 100 journal articles and book chapters - have appeared in eight languages. For 20 years he was coeditor of the Kluwer Academic Publishers book series, Evaluation in Education and Human Services and he coedited the 2003 International Handbook on Educational Evaluation. His New Directions for Evaluation issue, titled Evaluation Models Is NDE's all-time best seller. His latest book (with Anthony Shinkfield of Australia) is the Jossey-Bass 2007 text book, titled Evaluation Theory, Models, & Applications. His recognitions include Western Michigan University’s highest award, the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award (1984), the American Evaluation Association’s highest award, the Paul F. Lazarsfeld prize for theory development (1985), the WMU Harold and Beulah McKee Professorship of Education (1997), the CREATE inaugural Jason Millman Memorial Award (1997), a WMU Distinguished University Professorship (2002), and the (2007) WMU Daniel Stufflebeam Scholarship for doctoral students in evaluation.

Doctor Stufflebeam and his wife, Carolyn have three children–Kevin a farmer in Allegan, Michigan; Tracey a computer systems specialist in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Joseph a rocket scientist at White Sands Missile Proving Grounds, New Mexico–plus seven grandchildren.  Dan and Carolyn divide time each year among their farm in Kalamazoo, their Lake Michigan house in South Haven, and their house in Lady Lake, Florida.