Preskill, Hallie

(b. 1953, New York City). Ph.D. Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Certificate of Advanced Study, Evaluation and Policy Research, University of Vermont; M.S. Elementary and Special Education, Long Island University; B.A. Spanish, California State University at Fullerton.

Since 1994, Preskill has been Professor in the College of Education, University of New Mexico. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas and worked for private industry in the areas of training and evaluation. Her primary contributions to the field of evaluation focus on linking evaluative inquiry to organizational learning. She has written extensively on how evaluation can be a catalyst for individual, team, and organizational learning. Emphasizing the importance of context, she argues that the evaluation process can help ...