A Note on the Purposes, Development, and Applicability of the Joint Committee Evaluation Standards

Autor/in	Stufflebeam, Daniel L.
Titel	A Note on the Purposes, Development, and Applicability of the Joint Committee Evaluation Standards
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 25 (2004) 1, S.99-102 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/109821400402500107
Schlagwörter	National Standards; Evaluation Methods; Quality Control; Program Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Africa; Asia; Canada; Germany; North America; South America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitätskontrolle; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Ausland; Afrika; Asien; Kanada; Deutschland; Nordamerika; Südamerika
Abstract	The past few years have seen efforts in several countries and a wide range of disciplines to adopt and apply existing professional standards for guiding and judging evaluation services and/or develop new standards. Some of the efforts have drawn from the work and products of the North American Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. While the Joint Committee developed its standards for use in evaluating educational endeavors in the U.S. and Canada, the Standards have attracted attention from a wide range of groups beyond North America and beyond the discipline of education. Projects in Germany and some other countries to adopt/adapt the Joint Committee's (1994) Program Evaluation Standards have sometimes generated debate and controversy or just a need for additional information. Some critics correctly have raised questions about the appropriateness of transferring standards from the place where they were developed to other cultures. Also, some persons and groups--both in and outside North America--have sought clarification on the appropriateness of applying the Joint Committee's Standards to evaluations outside education. Among the groups that have discussed the transportability of the Joint Committee Standards are those belonging to evaluation associations in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia, plus U.S. evaluators in social welfare, community development, housing, technology, business, industry, public policy, philanthropy, and the U.S. military. This note is intended to provide the wide range of persons engaged in or considering adapting, applying, or examining the Joint Committee's Standards with accurate information about those Standards' purposes, development, and applications. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10