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AEA Members,
Nominations are now being accepted for the seven American Evaluation Association Awards. Please take this opportunity to acknowledge outstanding colleagues and outstanding work. Through identifying those who exemplify the very best in the field, we honor the practitioner and advance the discipline.
Aside from the Ingle Award, all awards are open to non-AEA members as a way to recognize contributions to the field. Self-nominations are accepted, but should also be supported by a recommendation from an AEA member.
The Awards Presentation will take place during the Awards Luncheon at the annual meeting. Recipients are announced in the American Journal of Evaluation and each winner will receive a complimentary year of membership to the American Evaluation Association.
All nominations must be completed and received in the AEA office by the deadline, Friday, June 10, 2011 in order to be considered.
AEA awards recipients will be recognized at Evaluation 2011, to be held October 31-November 6 in Anaheim, California.
The Awards:
Marcia Guttentag Award: Presented to a promising new evaluator during the first five years after completion of his or her Masters or Doctoral degree and whose work is consistent with the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators.
Nomination Requirements - Promise will have been demonstrated in early notable and substantial accomplishments.
- Contributions may include evidence of early involvement in professional activities and successful leadership.
- Contributions should have extended beyond the accomplishment of one or two evaluations of quality.
- This award is open to new evaluators in any area of evaluation (Examples: Health, International Development, Education).
Full Description and Nomination Requirements Robert Ingle Award:Presented to a member of AEA who has been particularly instrumental in promoting the interests and operations of the American Evaluation Association.
Nomination Requirements - This award is given for sustained and valuable service to AEA as an organization.
- Contributions might be prolonged involvement and/or leadership on AEA committees, task forces, topical interest groups or particularly influential roles at pivotal times in the organization's history.
Full Description and Nomination Requirements
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Government Award: Presented to an individual or group whose evaluation work is highly influential in governmental contexts and who has been particularly instrumental in furthering the interests of evaluation through advocacy, sponsorship, management, or use of evaluation in government, including local, state and federal government, and whose work is consistent with the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators.
Nomination Requirements
- The award reflects efforts to advance the profession and practice of evaluation in any level of government and the relationship between government and AEA.
- The award is not intended as an award for evaluation in government.
- The award may reflect either sustained contributions over time, or a singular achievement.
- The contributions to evaluation may reflect a range of activities. For example: advocacy, sponsorship, management, and use of evaluation in government.
Full Description and Nomination Requirements
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Practice Award: Presented to an evaluator who exemplifies outstanding evaluation practice and who has made substantial cumulative contributions to the field of evaluation through the practice of evaluation and whose work is consistent with the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators.
Nomination Requirements
- This award is given to an evaluator whose contributions to the field of evaluation have been substantial, sustained over a number of years, and cumulative.
- The award is not intended as recognition for a single achievement.
- Outstanding evaluation practice is defined as conducting evaluations, as would be evident in publications including technical reports, as well as influencing the field in which evaluations are performed.
- This award is open to an evaluator in any area of evaluation (Examples: Human Services, Non-Profits, Independent Consulting).
Full Description and Nomination Requirements
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award: Presented to an individual whose written work on evaluation theory has led to fruitful debates on the assumptions, goals, and practices of evaluation.
Nomination Requirements
- Awarded for sustained contributions to the influence of theory of evaluation.
- Contributions should be demonstrated to have been substantial in nature, although they need not necessarily have been broad in impact, e.g., they may have been limited to some aspects of evaluation or to one field of application.
- This award is open to an evaluator in any area of evaluation (Examples: Social Work, Organizational & Leadership Development, the Sciences).
Full Description and Nomination Requirements
Outstanding Evaluation Award: Presented for an evaluation (completed in the past five years) that remains consistent with the relevant evaluation standards.
Nomination Requirements - This award is given for the successful completion of a single evaluation project that can essentially stand alone as an example of high quality evaluation.
- That quality judgment will reflect both the methodology of the project and the usefulness of the findings.
- Taken as a whole, the evaluation should be considered exemplary of its kind and a potential model for other evaluators doing similar kinds of work.
- Example standards: Joint Committee's Program Evaluation Standards, Personnel Evaluation Standards, Student Evaluation Standards or other relevant standards.
- This award is open to an evaluation study in any area of evaluation (Examples: Environmental, the Arts, Foundations).
Full Description and Nomination Requirements
Outstanding Publication Award: Presented for a publication that has been, or has strong potential to be, instrumental to the development of theory or practice in the field of evaluation.
Nomination Requirements- The publication may be a single article, a monograph, book, software, or some other issuance.
- The publication may be a work of broad general interest, but it may also be for a work that is specific to some niche application and target audience.
- This award is open to a publication in any area of evaluation (Examples: International Development, Teaching, Non-Profit and Foundations).
Full Description and Nomination Requirements Susan
Susan Kistler
Executive Director, American Evaluation Association |
