(b. 1937, Alton, Illinois). Ed.D. Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.S. Education, Southern Illinois University; A.B. English, Washington University.

House is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, he was at CIRCE at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard University, and the University of New Mexico, as well as at universities in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.

His influence on the field of educational evaluation and policy analysis is felt both nationally and internationally. He has contributed substantially to a growing discussion on the role of values, ethics, and social justice in evaluation, as well as to metaevaluation, evaluative reasoning, and the philosophical basis of evaluation. His work has ...