Students, Client, and Teacher: Observations from a Practicum in Evaluation

I teach a graduate course on evaluation for individuals who teach/train adults in business, education, and non-profit settings. The purpose of this article is two-fold: to show how principles of adult learning were used to make the course practical and suited to adults’ learning needs, and to describe outcomes as impacted by and on the students, the evaluation client, and me, the teacher. Events of the evaluation are explained as they unfolded, class by class.