Statistics and Measurement Timeline

ARL, EBL, AAHSL, LibQUAL+

AAHSL partners with ARL

ARL Membership report for a pilot of LibQUAL+ -
ARL adopts Objective Performance 1996-present
proposes inclusion of 36 AHSL's participate
new criteria Measures for Academic ARL Statistics and Measurement
qualitative factors to
for members and Research Libraries Committee examines
supplement quantitative
published (Paul Kantor) measurement activities (e.g.,
membership criteria.
SERVQUAL) New Measures
Retreat

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ARL begins "Culture of

ARL adopts strategic objective to Special issue of ARL LibQUAL+ survey
to publish ARL adopts 5 EBL first Assessment"
focus on "describing and newsletter, "issues in introduced
statistical variable index as appears in appears in
measuring the performance of Research Library
data membership the articles
research libraries and their Measurement"
criterion literature (Stoffle,
contributions to teaching,
1996 and
research, scholarship and
Lakos, 1999
 A Brief History of Evaluation Research
Two conditions: Large scale evaluation
Data analysis and data
1. Emergence of programs were Journal
commonplace collection facilitated by
government programs Evaluation Review computer revolution
2. Social Scientists and is published (Gray)
preWWI - voluntary
rigorous social science
organizations
methods 1993
provided human Programs of the '60s
Great Society Programs GPRA PART
services apparently ineffective

1600s pre1930s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1965 1970s 1976 1980 1988 1990s 2002

"Evaluation has become the 1996

Thomas Hobbes - devised Federal War on Poverty - Numerous
liveliest frontier of American United Way
numerical measures to assess evaluation research grows books and social science." (Cronbach) Measuring
social conditions dramatically journals on
evaluation Program
Outcomes

From Evaluation Research: A Systematic Approach , 5th ed. Rossi and Freeman