The American Evaluation Association's mission is to: • Improve evaluation practices and methods • Increase evaluation use • Promote evaluation as a profession and • Support the contribution of evaluation to the generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action. New Directions for Evaluation is a peer-reviewed thematic
sourcebook published quarterly through
Jossey-Bass/Wiley, with each issue focusing on a different topic or aspect of evaluation.
Topical interest groups , AEA has 50+ topically focused subgroups. Each subgroup develops a strand of content for the association's annual conference, and works to build a community of practice through various means. • Advocacy and Policy Change • Arts, Culture, & Museums • Assessment in Higher Education • Behavioral Health • Cluster, Multi-Site, and Multi-Level Evaluation • Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation • College Access Programs • Community Development • Community Psychology • Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, & Economics • Data Visualization & Reporting • Democracy & Governance • Design & Analysis of Experiments • Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations • Disaster & Emergency Management Evaluation • Educational Evaluation • Environmental Program Evaluation • Evaluation Managers & Supervisors • Extension Education Evaluation • Feminist Issues in Evaluation • Government Evaluation • Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) • Graduate Student and New Evaluators • Health Evaluation • Human Services Evaluation • Independent Consulting • Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation • Integrating Technology into Evaluation • Internal Evaluation • International & Cross Cultural Evaluation • LatinX Responsive Evaluation Discourse • Leadership and Organizational Performance • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues • Mixed Methods Evaluation • Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation • Needs Assessment • NonProfit & Foundations • Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building • Program Design • Program Theory & Theory-Driven Evaluation • Qualitative Methods • Quantitative Methods: Theory & Design • Research on Evaluation • Research, Technology & Development Evaluation • Social Finance • Social Network Analysis • Social Work • STEM Education and Training • Systems in Evaluation • Teaching of Evaluation • Theories of Evaluation • Translational Research Evaluation • University-Based Centers • Use and Influence of Evaluation • Youth Focused Evaluation == History ==