COUSINS, Brad
Professor
LMX 229
Telephone: (613) 562-5800-4036
E-Mail: bcousins@uottawa.ca
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Research interests and scholarly activities
Professor Cousins' primary research interests focus on evaluation capacity building and the implementation and consquences of participatory and collaborative forms of evaluation and applied research. Academic domains of interest to him are: program, personnel and student evaluation; knowledge utilization; planned organizational change; organizational learning; and the implementation of innovative programs. Professor Cousins' scholarly work reflects a strong commitment to field development in education and related areas of inquiry.
Teaching fields
Program evaluation; knowledge utilization; school improvement; organizational learning; supervision for growth; classroom assessment.
Recent publications
Cousins, J. B.,& Shulha, L. M. (in press). Complexities in setting program standards in collaborative evaluation. In N. Smith & P. Brandon (Eds.), Fundamental issues in evaluation. New York: Guilford.
Smith, J. D., Ryan, W., & Cousins, J. B., (in press). Anti-bullying programmes: A survey of evaluation activities in public schools. Studies Educational Evaluation.
Cousins, J. B., & Shulha, L. M. (2006). A comparative analysis of evaluation utilization and its cognate fields. In I.F. Staw, M. M. Mark & J. Greene (Eds.), International Handbook of Evaluation. (pp. 266-291) Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Goh, S., Cousins, J. B., Elliot, C. (2006). Evaluation capacity in schools: A descriptive study. Journal of Educational Change, 7, 289-318.
Smith, J. D., Cousins, J. B., & Stewart, R. (2006). Antibullying interventions in schools: Ingredients of Effective Programs. Canadian Journal of Education. 28, 583-615.
Cousins, J. B. (2005). Will the real empowerment evaluation please stand up? A critical friend perspective. In D. M. Fetterman & A. Wandersman (Eds.), Empowerment evaluation principles in practice. (pp. 183-208). New York: Guilford Press.
Cousins, J. B. (2005). Interview with Joe Hudson, Founding editor of CJPE. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 20(3), 191-221.
Cousins, J. B., J. B., Goh, S., & Clark, S. (2005). Data use leads to data valuing: Evaluative inquiry for school decision making. Leadership and Policy in Schools. 4, 155-176.
Cousins, J. B. (2004). Crossing the bridge: Toward understanding use through systematic inquiry. In M.C. Alkin (Ed.) Evaluation roots. (pp. 319-330).Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Cousins, J. B. (2004). Minimizing evaluation misutilization as principled practice. American Journal of Evaluation. 25, 391-397.
Cousins, J. B., Aubry, T., Smith-Fowler, H., & Smith, M. (2004). Using key component profiles for the evaluation of program implementation in intensive mental health case management. Evaluation and Program Planning. 27, 1-23.
Cousins, J. B., Goh, S., Clark, S., & Lee, L. (2004). Integrating evaluative inquiry into the organizational culture: A review and synthesis of the knowledge. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 19(2), 99-141.
Smith, J. D., Stewart, R., & Cousins, J. B. (2004). Inside the black box: Challenges in implementation evaluation of community mental health case management programs. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 19(3), 109-133.
Cousins, J. B. (2003). Use effects of participatory evaluation. In, T. Kellaghan, D. Stufflebeam & L. Wingate (Eds.) International handbook of educational evaluation. (pp 245-266). Boston: Klewer.