Open AccessComparison of Canadian and American Graduate Evaluation Education Programs
Author(s) -
Moira Hunter,
James C. McDavid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of program evaluation/the canadian journal of program evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1496-7308
pISSN - 0834-1516
DOI - 10.3138/cjpe.56989
Subject(s) - professionalization , graduate education , graduate students , population , political science , medical education , program evaluation , higher education , library science , sociology , public administration , medicine , demography , computer science , law
University education in evaluation is an important support for the professionalization of the field. Using internet sources and direct contacts with 105 Canadian university departments, our study develops a Canada-wide inventory of graduate courses and programs, with emphasis on evaluation. Comparisons are made with inventories of American graduate evaluation programs undertaken between 1980 and 2018. Although Canada has about half as many multi-course graduate programs in evaluation as were found in the United States in 2018, the relative number of Canadian programs is disproportionately greater, considering the two countries’ population sizes. Canada also has a more diverse range of disciplines offering evaluation education programs.