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Two U.S.-based professional societies were formed to foster evaluation as a profession and a science. The Evaluation Research Society was established in 1976 to serve the professional needs of the growing number of people engaged in program evaluation and was composed primarily of academic and quantitative researchers. The Evaluation Network, also founded in 1976, consisted mostly of practitioners (e.g., school-based evaluators) who were more interested in conducting evaluations than concerned about theory and methods issues. As indicated in Table 3.2, in 1986, the Evaluation Research Society and Evaluation Network merged to form the AEA. The association currently has over 7,000 members representing all 50 states in the United States as well as over 80 foreign countries (www.eval.org).