Introduction to the special issue on evaluator education.

Abstract

After years in preparation, we are pleased to introduce this special issue of Evaluation and Program Planning that focuses on evaluator education, a topic that we believe is of considerable importance to the field's future. Before describing the issue's content, let us ground the articles in two ways: by examining the larger context within which evaluator education finds itself, and by briefly explaining who we are and describing how the issue came into being.