Juan D’Brot Tapped for Leadership Role on Evaluation Standards Committee
Juan D’Brot, an associate director at the Center for Assessment, has been reelected to a three-year term on the executive committee of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.
The Joint Committee’s mission is to develop and promote standards for conducting high-quality evaluations. The committee consists of professional organization representatives and subject matter experts, who are charged with the task of reviewing, updating, developing, and disseminating standards to meet the needs of the evaluation field. Although the JCSEE has strong roots in the world of educational evaluation, its standards are widely used across many types of program evaluation.
The Joint Committee is currently working to update its Program Evaluation Standards, and will soon revise its Classroom Assessment Standards.
The JCSEE was formed in 1975 as a coalition of professional associations in the United States and Canada concerned with the quality of evaluation practice. Membership on the committee includes representation from the educational community, professional evaluators, and subject-matter experts, each with an interest in the use and practice of evaluation. The first set of standards, The Program Evaluation Standards, were published in 1981. Since then, the committee has continued to review and update the original standards, as well as to develop new standards for specialized areas of educational evaluation.
Today, the JCSEE is the official source for standards for program evaluation in North America, and provides standards that are applicable for evaluations conducted in both educational and non-educational settings. Modified versions the program evaluation standards have also been officially adopted by other evaluation communities around the world, including the African Evaluation Association, and evaluation societies in Switzerland and Germany. Additionally, the JCSEE has developed and published standards for classroom assessments and for use with personnel evaluations conducted in educational settings.