Ernest House: Biographical Sketch

Ernest R. House is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His primary interests are evaluation and policy analysis. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the 1989 recipient of the Harold E. Lasswell Prize presented by Policy Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, presented by the American Evaluation Association. He has authored numerous books and peer reviewed articles on evaluation and policy. He was editor of New Directions in Program Evaluation (1982 to 1985) and has served on the editorial board of several professional journals in evaluation. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, and New Mexico, as well as in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile. He has served on several advisory boards or committees related to STEM education including: evaluation advisory committee for the Office of Studies and Evaluation at NSF; evaluation advisory committee for the Statewide Systemic Initiatives at NSF; expert panel for review of federal education programs in STEM for the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Technology and Education; and on the evaluation advisory board for the Education and Human Resources Directorate at NSF. The projects he has led include: audit of the Promotional Gates Program evaluation for the Mayor's Office in New York City (1981), assessment of environmental education policies in Europe for OECD (1992), National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (1990-1995) and a study of evaluation issues and policies in a large-scale organization for NSF (1991-1996). He received an A.B. in English at Washington University, an M.S. in Secondary Education at Southern Illinois University, and an Ed.D. at the University of Illinois.