Ernest R. House
Ernest R. House in 1998
BornAugust 7, 1937
Alton, Illinois
SpouseMary Donna Brown

Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy.[1] He has been a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Before that, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1969 to 1985. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000), and also in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.

With Ronald Wooldridge, he was editor-in-chief of the journal New Directions for Program Evaluation (the journal of the Evaluation Research Society) from 1982 to 1985.

Education

House graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's degree in English in 1959. He earned a master's degree in secondary education from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and completed a doctorate (Ed. D.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968.

Awards and honors

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Ford Foundation Fellow (England), 1975.
  • Harold E. Lasswell Prize (with William Madura) presented by Policy Sciences (1989).
  • Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, for lifetime contributions to evaluation research and theory, awarded by,[2] 1990.
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, 1999-2000

Books

  • The Politics of Educational Innovation (1974)
  • Survival in the Classroom (with S. Lapan, 1978)[3]
  • Evaluating with Validity (1980, re-issued 2010)[4]
  • Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: The Rise and Fall of the Push/Excel Program (1988)[5]
  • Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences (1993)[6]
  • Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools, and What Will (1998)[7]
  • Values in Evaluation and Social Research (with K. Howe, 1999)[8]
  • Regression to the Mean: A Novel of Evaluation Politics (2007)[9]
  • Cherry Street Alley (2015)
  • Evaluating: Values, Biases, and Practical Wisdom (2014)

References

  1. ↑ E. R. House résumé
  2. ↑ Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine American Evaluation Association Award Recipients
  3. ↑ Reviews of Survival in the Classroom: Harry Hutson, JSTOR 20299681; Meredith Damien Gall, JSTOR 27537210; Penelope L. Peterson and Barbara B. Levin, JSTOR 1175380
  4. ↑ Reviews of Evaluating with Validity: David A. Kenny, doi:10.3102/01623737004001121; Gene V. Glass, David A. Kenny, and Paul M. Wortman, JSTOR 1163798; Michael J. Parsons, JSTOR 3332286
  5. ↑ Reviews of Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: Aldon Morris, JSTOR 2074201; Dorothy Willner, JSTOR 2131550; Dianne M. Pinderhughes, doi:10.2307/2151124; Ronald W. Walters, JSTOR 1047299; Jerry Mitchell, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1988.tb01030.x
  6. ↑ Reviews of Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences: P. K. Jamison, doi:10.1016/0149-7189(95)90015-2; Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, JSTOR 24362354
  7. ↑ Reviews of Schools for Sale: Dan D. Goldhaber, doi:10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00012-7; David Stevenson, doi:10.1086/444219, JSTOR 1085666; Henry M. Levin, JSTOR 3202231
  8. ↑ Reviews of Values in Evaluation and Social Research: Sheila A. Arens and Thomas A. Schwandt, doi:10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00019-7; Harry Torrance, JSTOR 1501802
  9. ↑ Review of Regression to the Mean: Darrel N. Caulley


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