Setting the stage for critically defined and responsive evaluator education and training

Abstract

This chapter describes the importance of evaluator education and some of the different ways in which evaluators can learn about the field.It discusses a historic perspective on evaluator education alongside its recent developments, and describes areas where further discussion is needed, including critical adult education, universal design for learning, and explicitly linking evaluator education with contemporary and anticipated future needs. It concludes by asking “what should evaluator education look like in the future?”.