At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Arriving on campus in 1963, Stake was involved with the following:

Assisted Thomas Hastings, Lee Cronbach, and Jack Easley in the creation of the new evaluation center, CIRCE, and in developing a program of research on program evaluation.
Administration of the statewide high school testing program.
Remediating mathematics deficiencies of students enrolled in statistics courses.
Instructing advanced graduate students in the development of expectancy tables, factor analyses of test scores, customized educational measurements and multidimensional scaling of teacher characteristics.
Courses taught on UIUC campus
• Case Studies of Curricula

• Case Study Research Methods

• Elements of Educational Statistics

• Evaluation of Curricula

• Evaluation of Educational Programs

• Introduction to Program Evaluation

• Philosophies of Assessment (with Robert Ennis)

• Qualitative Data Analysis (with Renee Clift)

• Statistical Methods in Education

• Theories of Educational Evaluation

• Independent Study

• Thesis Study
Courses taught off-campus:
• Construction of Evaluation Instruments (EDUC 344)
  (College of Education, University of Connecticut)

• Evaluation of School-Based Management
  (College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago)

• Research for the Teacher (ED 429)
  (College of Education, Simon Fraser University)

• Educational Evaluation (ED 852)
  (College of Education, Simon Fraser University)

• (ED 480)
  (College of Education, University of Colorado)

• Introduction to Research in Education (EDPS 481)
  (College of Education, University of British Columbia)

• Case Study Research Methods (EAR 688)
  (College of Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
  Courses developed:
  • With professors from the Medical College, University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master's degree program for specialists in medical education (1967).

  • Graduate course on Case Study Research Methods (1978).

  • A training unit entitled " Seeking Sweet Water--Case Study Methods in Educational Research" for AERA (1979).

  • Simultaneously but independently from Edith Terwilliger, a 300-level course, Introduction to Educational Evaluation (1981-82).

  • Evaluation for School-Based Management for school administrators in Chicago (1992).