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Robert Stake

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Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor Emeritus, Educational Psychology , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Awards
  • Fulbright Specialist Program Award , 2014
  • Fulbright Scholar Award , 1984
  • Fulbright Scholar Award , 1973

Research & Service

My past efforts have focused on program evaluation theory and practice, and qualitative research methods including case study.

I am currently involved in performance assessment in New York City schools and the evaluation of training in the U.S. Veterans Administration.

Since 1975 I have been director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE). Once a specialist in psychometrics and instructional research, my present orientation is naturalistic or ethnographic field study, particularly of the classroom. In 1998 I retired from the University of Illinois but continue to teach and head CIRCE.

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