Stufflebeam, Daniel L.

(b. 1936, Waverly, Iowa). Ph.D., Purdue University; B.A., University of Iowa.

Stufflebeam is Distinguished University Professor and Harold and Beulah McKee Professor of Education at Western Michigan University (WMU). From 1973 to 2002, he directed the Evaluation Center at WMU, which he had originally founded in 1965 at The Ohio State University, directed there until 1973, and then moved to WMU. Stufflebeam chaired the national Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation for its first 13 years and was also Founding Director of the Center for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Education (CREATE). His more than $20 million in grants and contracts has supported evaluation and research projects [Page 401]in such areas as national and state achievement testing; school improvement; distance education; science and mathematics education; historically African American colleges; housing, community, and economic development; productivity of private colleges; teacher and administrator evaluation; Marine Corps personnel evaluation; metaevaluation; and the functioning of a Catholic diocese. He directed the development of more than 100 standardized achievement tests, including eight forms of the General Educational Development tests. He has also served as advisor to many federal and state government departments, the United Nations, the World Bank, Open Learning Australia, various charitable foundations, many school districts, and several universities. He has lectured and provided technical assistance in more than 20 countries. Currently he is serving on the Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council of the U.S. General Accounting Office.

Besides his many contributions to the development and advocacy of the profession, Stufflebeam is known for having developed one of the first models of program evaluation, the CIPP Model of Evaluation. His publications (15 books and about 100 journal articles and book chapters) have appeared in eight languages. Since 1983, he has been Coeditor of the Kluwer Academic Press book series Evaluation in Education and Human Services, and he is Coeditor of the 2003 International Handbook on Educational Evaluation. His recognitions include Western Michigan University's Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award (1984), the American Evaluation Association's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award (1985), the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation inaugural Jason Millman Memorial Award (1997), the WMU Harold and Beulah McKee Professorship of Education (1997), and a Distinguished University Professorship (2002).