Special Section Editors’ Note: A Focus on the Evaluation Profession

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Dunaway K. Gardner K. Grieve K. (this issue). Cultural competence: 10-year comparison of program evaluators’ perceptions. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(3). https://doi.org/10982140221122767

Gross C. J. A. Rodríguez-Bilella P. Olavarría C. (this issue). How to train better in evaluation: Teaching landscape and lessons learned from Latin America. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(3). https://doi.org/10982140211059373

Hall M. E. (2020). Competencies, self-awareness, and practice: Notes on my reading of chapters 5–7. New Directions for Evaluation, 168, 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20432

Mason S. (this issue). Just give me an example! Exploring strategies for building public understanding of evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(3). https://doi.org/10982140211061018

Pann J. M. DiLuzio E. Coghlan A. T. Hughes S. D. (2022). Supporting evaluation practice through mindfulness. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(2), 293–307. https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140221116094

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Schwandt T. (2017). Professionalization, ethics, and fidelity to an evaluation ethos. American Journal of Evaluation, 38(4), 546–553. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214017728578

Teasdale R. M. McNeilly J. R. Ramírez Garzón M. I. Novak J. Greene J. C. (this issue). “A Lot of It Really Does Come Down to Values”: An empirical study of the values advanced by seasoned evaluators. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140231153805

Tucker S. Stevahn L. King J. A. (this issue). Professionalizing evaluation: A time-bound comparison of the American Evaluation Association's foundational documents. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(3). https://doi.org/10982140221136486

Tucker S. A. Barela E. Miller R. L. Podems D. R. (2020). The story of the AEA competencies task force (2015–2018). New Directions for Evaluation, 168, 31–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20439

Tucker S. A. King J. A. (2020). Next steps for AEA and the newly created AEA professionalization and competencies working group. New Directions for Evaluation, 168, 149–162. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20436