Trends and challenges in program evaluation: an interview with Chris Coryn

• Main Author: Bauer, Adriana
• Publication Date: 2019
• Other Authors: Silva Fernandes, Fabiana
• Format: Article
• Language: por; eng
• Source: Estudos em Avaliação Educacional
• Download full: https://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/eae/article/view/6229
• topic: Program Evaluation; Evaluative Research Design; Evaluator Training; Evaluation Approaches; Evaluación de Programas; Diseños de Investigación Evaluativa; Formación del Evaluador; Abordajes Evaluativos; Avaliação de Programas; Desenhos de Pesquisa Avaliativa; Formação do Avaliador; Abordagens Avaliativas

In this interview, Chris Coryn, Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation (IDPE) Program, Professor of Evaluation at Western Michigan University (WMU) and executive editor of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, explains key concepts and characteristics of program evaluation, a dimension of evaluation that is still unexplored in the educational area in Brazil. The researcher comments on some of the current challenges in the field of program evaluation, highlighting methodological tendencies and ethical issues in professional practice. He also discusses knowledge, competences and skills that should be considered in the training of the professional evaluator. Coryn criticizes current evaluative approaches that disconnect program evaluation from values and valuing, which, in his view, are distinctive elements of program evaluation.