Ernest R. House

Ernest R. House
Ernest R. House in 1998
Born	August 7, 1937 Alton, Illinois
Residence	Boulder, Colorado, United States
Spouse(s)	Mary Donna Brown

Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy. He is a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Previously, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1969-1985). He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000), as well as in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.

A.B. in English, Washington University, 1959; M.S. in Secondary Education, Southern Illinois University, 1964; Ed. D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968.

Selected evaluation studies direct by House include the following:

House served as Editor of New Directions in Program Evaluation (1982-1985), and as a featured columnist in Evaluation Practice (1984-1989)

Among his many contributions are the following books:

In Marvin C. Alkin's book Evaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists' Views and Influences, House's contributions to evaluation theory were seen as closely related to the work of Robert E. Stake and Michael Scriven.

Evaluating with Validity (1980) is a very important contribution in the early development of evaluation theory and practice, as evidenced by the fact that it was reissued in 2010 and that three central chapters have been made available through open access by the American Evaluation Association.