While working with the Ohio State University Evaluation Center, Stufflebeam and his colleagues felt that evaluation programs needed to be improved and revised. They felt that the employment of the Tylerian approaches to evaluation were inadequate. Stufflebeam decided that “educators needed a broader definition of evaluation than one constrained to determine whether objectives had been achieved” (Stufflebeam, 1971). Stufflebeam’s reconceptualization of evaluation included process evaluation to guide implementation, and product evaluation to serve recycling decisions. After additional input, the method was further expanded to include context evaluation to inform planning decisions, and input evaluation to serve structuring decisions.

The Phi Kappa Delta National Study Committee on Evaluation, chaired by Daniel L. Stufflebeam, developed the CIPP model of curriculum evaluation. References to evaluation studies that make use of the CIPP model are abundant. Interestingly, Michael Scriven and Stufflebeam debated the differences of their models of evaluation in a number of settings (the AERA commissioned them to co-direct and team-teach four traveling training institutes. “Through these contracts, I became convinced that our different views of evaluation were more apparent than real and that they mainly reflected different perspectives and experiences. In my work with the Columbus schools, an orientation towards a final, externally-based judgment of worth would have been stifling and nonresponsive to the staff’s need for guidance toward “shaking down” and improving their projects (Stufflebeam, Models and Conceptualizations).

Currently, Stufflebeam is associated with the Evaluation Center which is interested in all forms of the evaluation of programs, personnel and students. He advocates the state government as the real carthis of change in our current political system stating: "Local government is too small, the National Government hopelessly political, leaving the individual state as the agent of change."

Publications

Stufflebeam, D. L., Foley, W. J., Gephart, W. J., Hammond, L. R., Merriman, H. O., & Provus, M. M. (1971). Educational evaluation and decision-making in education., Itasca, IL: Peacock.

"The Ten Commandments, Constitutional Amendments, and Other Evaluation Checklists," paper presented by Daniel Stufflebeam at AEA 2000 [PDF format]