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
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE
EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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
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
Sharon Nelson-Barber
Pacific Resources Education
and Learning
Honolulu, HI
Affiliated Faculty
Drew Gitomer
Rutgers University
Affiliated Faculty
Katherine Tibbetts
Current President of Hawaii-Pacific
Evaluation Association
Kamehameha Schools
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
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION
AND ASSESSMENT (CREA)
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)
Affiliated Faculty
Fiona Cram
Katoa Ltd.
Maori, Ngati Kahungunu
Evaluator
Auckland, New Zealand
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Affiliated Faculty
Rodney Hopson
Current President of American
Evaluation Association
Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA
Affiliated Faculty
Khawla Obeidat
University of Colorado Denver
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION
AND ASSESSMENT (CREA)
Affiliated Faculty
Toks Fashola
Optimal Solutions Group
and Johns Hopkins University
Affiliated Faculty
Valerie Taylor
Texas A & M
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE
EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT
(CREA)
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
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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
Core Personnel
Jennifer Greene
Immediate Past-President of
American Evaluation Association
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Core Personnel
Katherine Ryan
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
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE
EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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
CHAMPAIGN
URBANA-
Dublin Office-Dublin City University
Provide professional
development in evaluation
principles
and methods
Provide professional
development tools,
training and education in
culturally responsive
evaluation and
assessment
St. Colm’s School
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
St. Dominic’s Grammar School for Girls
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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)
Mullingar Educate
Together
National School
Mullingar, Ireland
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
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY
RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND
ASSESSMENT (CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Seek contracts and grants with
public and private entities to
Waitangi Treaty Grounds
New Zealand
provide evaluation services.
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT
(CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Whangarei, New Zealand
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE
EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT (CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Rotorua, New Zealand
CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EVALUATION AND
ASSESSMENT (CREA)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
CREA INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
WHEN: SPRING 2013
WHERE: CHICAGO
1310 South Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Email: crea@education.illinois.edu
Phone: 217-244-4987 or 217-333-2981
Website: crea.education.illinois.edu
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN