Barbara Rosenstein (Near East)

Dr. Barbara Rosenstein was born in New York City in 1945. She completed her undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College and received an MA from the University of Chicago. She has both Israeli and US citizenship. Dr. Rosenstein has been active in the field of program evaluation since 1986 when she began working for Bernard van Leer Foundation Projects in Israel. As part of her role as project evaluator she incorporated the use of visual tools for collecting and analyzing data. She further developed this use in her Ph.D. studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Since receiving her degree in 1997 she has continued her career in program evaluation. She was one of the founding members of the Israeli Association for Program Evaluation of which she is currently chairperson. She also serves on the Board of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation.

Dr. Rosenstein has presented papers and published articles on the subject of video use for evaluation, teaching evaluation, visual images as tools for evaluation, and reflection.