Evaluation, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

We welcome creative, curious, critical thinkers from any disciplinary background to join our learning community and the evaluation field.

Our mission is to build capacity to do and use evaluation for program, organization, and systems learning and change. We are committed to:

• Advocating for evaluation in service of common good and an equitable, just society.
• Impacting the evaluation field through teaching, innovating, creating, and sharing our work.
• Providing a pathway to university-based evaluator education in support of diversity and inclusion in the evaluation profession.

The Evaluation Certificate emphasizes evaluation as a service profession for program, organization, and systems learning and change. The program serves several purposes, including:

• Building your capacity to do and use evaluation in your current professional role.
• Strengthening your resume with an advanced credential in evaluation.
• Adding to or updating evaluation knowledge and skills gained through prior formal and informal learning.
• A step towards the M.S. concentration in Evaluation & Organizational Learning if you are contemplating the master’s program.

Through 18 credits students will learn to:

• Apply the fundamental norms and values underlying evaluation practice, including the standards, guidelines, and competencies of the discipline
• Act and interact ethically through evaluation practice that demonstrates integrity and respect for all people
• Apply evaluation theory, approaches and methodologies
• Address evaluation context, including the unique circumstances, multiple perspectives and changing settings of evaluations and their users/stakeholders
• Facilitate evaluation use and capacity building
• Apply effective interpersonal skills, including communication, facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Engage in culturally responsive evaluation practice, including addressing issues of privilege and power, and facilitating constructive and culturally responsive interactions throughout the evaluation