Robert E. Stake
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Robert E. Stake is a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stake is a native of Adams, Nebraska
. After earning a PhD in Psychometrics at Princeton University in 1958, he assumed the position of Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, which he held until moving to the University of Illinois in 1963. He became Associate Director of the Illinois State Testing Program. The testing program was absorbed by the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) in 1969. There he served as Co-Director and subsequently in 1975 as Director of the CIRCE until his retirement in 1998. He has been a leader in development of program evaluation methods for decades. Among his many contributions are the 2010 book
Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Workhttp://books.google.com/books?id=e3cxT0qhn6AC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22qualitative+research:+studying+how+things+work%22&source=bl&ots=D8bvJk_vnr&sig=DyL4Fh4Ld475cffZ5nm4cQKwmNE&hl=en&ei=sQPfS8bVBo34sQP_yoHeBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, and in 1995, The Art of Case Study Research. http://www.amazon.com/dp/080395767X.
In the field of Educational assessment, stake had stated that we must evaluate the quality of the curriculum or by its qualities. In order to do that we need to have made evaluation that is formative and to gather different points of view in the process.
He was the recipient in 1988 of the Lazerfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1994.
He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Valladolid
in 2009.
In 2007 Robert Stake received a Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association
"for his significant contribution to qualitative methodology, to the theory and practice of evaluation".
Adams, Nebraska
Adams is a village in Gage County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 489 at the 2000 census.-History:The area that would become the village of Adams was initially colonized by the namesake of the settlement, an Indiana pioneer named John O. Adams. Adams arrived in 1857; however, the...
. After earning a PhD in Psychometrics at Princeton University in 1958, he assumed the position of Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, which he held until moving to the University of Illinois in 1963. He became Associate Director of the Illinois State Testing Program. The testing program was absorbed by the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) in 1969. There he served as Co-Director and subsequently in 1975 as Director of the CIRCE until his retirement in 1998. He has been a leader in development of program evaluation methods for decades. Among his many contributions are the 2010 book
Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Workhttp://books.google.com/books?id=e3cxT0qhn6AC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22qualitative+research:+studying+how+things+work%22&source=bl&ots=D8bvJk_vnr&sig=DyL4Fh4Ld475cffZ5nm4cQKwmNE&hl=en&ei=sQPfS8bVBo34sQP_yoHeBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, and in 1995, The Art of Case Study Research. http://www.amazon.com/dp/080395767X.
In the field of Educational assessment, stake had stated that we must evaluate the quality of the curriculum or by its qualities. In order to do that we need to have made evaluation that is formative and to gather different points of view in the process.
He was the recipient in 1988 of the Lazerfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1994.
He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Valladolid
University of Valladolid
The University of Valladolid is a public university in the city of Valladolid, province of Valladolid, in the autonomous region of Castile-Leon, Spain...
in 2009.
In 2007 Robert Stake received a Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association
American Educational Research Association
The American Educational Research Association, or AERA, was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world....
"for his significant contribution to qualitative methodology, to the theory and practice of evaluation".