(b. 1939, Poland). Ph.D., The Ohio State University.

Nevo is Professor of Education at Tel Aviv University in Israel and Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Education, State of Israel.

[Page 278]Nevo has contributed to the field of evaluation through his work on evaluation in schools, specifically in promoting the combination of student assessment with program evaluation as a basis for the professional development of teachers and principals. Nevo has been instrumental in promoting the use of program evaluation in educational systems around the world. In this work, he is one of the pioneers of the idea of dialogic evaluation, an approach that accepts that evaluators can do many, but not all, things and that acknowledges evaluators are not the sole source of influence on changes in ...