Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy.

House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001.

He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000), and also in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.

House graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's degree in English in 1959.

He earned a master's degree in secondary education from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and completed a doctorate (Ed.