The Evaluation Center

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The Evaluation Center’s mission is to advance the theory, practice, and use of evaluation. Staffed by a team of interdisciplinary evaluation specialists, the center conducts program evaluations for diverse clients, serves students and local organizations through community-engaged learning, and offers an array of open-access resources on program evaluation.

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Lyssa Wilson Becho, principal research associate at The Evaluation Center, was honored with the prestigious Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award by the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Read the full press release.
Find out what drives us. You can view our core mission, vision, and value statements, as well as the activities we engage in to support them.
View our 2024 American Evaluation Association Conference activities, including an exhibit hall presence, posters, presentations, and more.
, a suite of self-paced courses on program evaluation, powered by The Evaluation Center has just launched! Check out their press release.
Introducing our free evaluation glossary app! Access authoritative definitions of evaluation terms instantly.

Evaluation Checklists

The Evaluation Checklist Project offers more than 30 checklists on diverse topics to guide evaluation practice.

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Evaluation Café

A longstanding, twice monthly speaker series featuring thought leaders in evaluation. Eval Café encourages discussion and helps build community within the field.

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Located at The Evaluation Center, EvaluATE is funded by NSF to provide training on conducting, managing and using evaluation. All resources are open-access.

The center is home to JMDE, an open-access, peer-reviewed publication contributing to the field of evaluation through scholarly dissemination.

Evaluation Lab: Experience-driven learning plus community impact.

The Evaluation Lab serves the Kalamazoo community while training WMU undergraduate and graduate students in program evaluation. The lab seeks to advance the social justice missions of organizations serving diverse communities by offering affordable, collaborative, and culturally responsive evaluation services.

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Evaluation professionals at The Evaluation Center are trained to apply evaluation theory, methods, and proven practices to meet any evaluation challenge. We pride ourselves on our ability to work across a wide range of disciplines and topic areas.

We’re ready to meet you wherever you are on your evaluation journey, whether you are submitting a funding proposal, need an outcome evaluation for a long-standing program, or building your organization’s evaluation capacity. Complete the form below to get started.

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