The testing program was absorbed by the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) in 1969.
In the field of Educational assessment, Stake has stated that we need to gather different points of view in the process.
[1] Stake was the recipient in 1988 of the Lazerfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association [2] and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1994.
[4] In 2007 Robert Stake received a Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association "for his significant contribution to qualitative methodology, to the theory and practice of evaluation".
[5] Stake's writings and thinking in the field of program evaluation have influenced the work of numerous scholars in the field including that of Ernest R. House, his colleague at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1969 to 1985.