ABSTRACT
Keiko Kuji-Shikatani is a credentialed evaluator working as an education officer on the Research Monitoring and Evaluation Team in the Student Achievement Division for the Ontario Ministry of Education. She began working with UNICEF East Asia and Pakistan Regional Office in Bangkok as an assistant information officer. She studied program monitoring and evaluation methodologies, curriculum evaluation, sociological research methodologies, qualitative evaluation, participatory research methodologies, program planning, comparative, international, and development education, education and self-learning process, and community development. The participatory research included needs assessment and literature search involving surveying and collecting monitoring and evaluation (M&Amp;E) policy documents and guides from international organizations. As a researcher with a comparative, international and development education background, working in Japan was really fascinating. Keiko Kuji-Shikatani became the Quality Assurance Advisor/Course developer for the Japanese Evaluation Society Professional Development Accreditation Project Pilot School Evaluator Training Program.
