CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Stafford Hood Director and Sheila M. Miller Professor

Thomas Schwandt Senior Fellow and Associate Director CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Address questions, issues, theories and practice related to “culturally responsive evaluation” (CRE) and culturally responsive educational assessment. Affiliated Faculty Joe O'Hara Head of School School of Education Studies Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland Affiliated Faculty Gerry McNamara Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland

Develop short courses and curriculum materials for professionals concerned with learning more about culturallyvresponsive evaluation and assessment CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

A team of scholars working to prepare a culturally diverse pool of highly trained evaluators, assessment specialists, researchers, and policy analysts CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Robert Stake, Professor Emeritus Director of CIRCE University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ernie House, Professor Emeritus University of Colorado Boulder

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Affiliated Faculty Drew Gitomer Rutgers University Affiliated Faculty Katherine Tibbetts Current President of Hawaii-Pacific Evaluation Association Kamehameha Schools Honolulu, HI Affiliated Faculty Sharon Nelson-Barber Pacific Resources Education and Learning Honolulu, HI

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) Conduct and disseminate research on the theory and practice of culturally responsive evaluation and assessment UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Affiliated Faculty Karen Kirkhart Syracuse University Affiliated Faculty Melvin Hall Northern Arizona University CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Affiliated Faculty Henry Frierson University of Florida at Gainesville CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Affiliated Faculty Khawla Obeidat University of Colorado Denver Affiliated Faculty Fiona Cram Katoa Ltd. Maori, Ngati Kahungunu Evaluator Auckland, New Zealand Affiliated Faculty Rodney Hopson Current President of American Evaluation Association Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Affiliated Faculty Toks Fashola Optimal Solutions Group and Johns Hopkins University CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Affiliated Faculty Valerie Taylor Texas A & M

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Affiliated Faculty Juan Gilbert Clemson University Affiliated Faculty Chance Lewis University of North Carolina Charlotte

Grow its international consortium of researchers and evaluators with a diverse set of cultural viewpoints and social backgrounds to provide professional development training in evaluation principles and methods CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Affiliated Faculty Joan LaFrance Mekinak Consulting Turtle Mountain Chippewa Evaluator Seattle, WA CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) Core Personnel Katherine Ryan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Core Personnel Jennifer Greene Immediate Past-President of American Evaluation Association University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Core Personnel Karrie Shogren University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Core Personnel William Trent University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Affiliated Faculty Kevin Favor Lincoln University Lincoln, PA

Affiliated Faculty Pamela Frazier-Anderson Frazier Anderson Research and Evaluation CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Provide professional development in evaluation principles and methods CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN Dublin Office-Dublin City University

St. Colm’s School Belfast, Northern Ireland Provide professional development tools, training and education in culturally responsive evaluation and assessment CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

St. Dominic’s Grammar School for Girls Belfast, Northern Ireland CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Provide an applied training ground for students seeking to develop expertise in the use of empirical methods in educational research, evaluation and policy analysis

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Mullingar Educate Together National School Mullingar, Ireland

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Mullingar Educate Together National School Mullingar, Ireland

Seek contracts and grants with public and private entities to provide evaluation services. CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Waitangi Treaty Grounds New Zealand

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Whangarei, New Zealand

Rotorua, New Zealand CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN CREA INAUGURAL CONFERENCE WHEN: SPRING 2013 WHERE: CHICAGO

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 1310 South Sixth Street Champaign, IL Phone: or Website: crea.education.illinois.edu