Providing Appropriate Evaluative Support for Valuing in the Public Interest

Autor/inn/en	Julnes, George; Bustelo, Maria
Titel	Providing Appropriate Evaluative Support for Valuing in the Public Interest
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 37 (2016) 1, S.100-103 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214015619226
Schlagwörter	Evaluation; Value Judgment; Ethics; Values; Public Policy; Public Service + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evaluierung; Werturteil; Ethik; Wertbegriff; Öffentliche Ordnung; Public services; Öffentlicher Sozialdienst
Abstract	Evaluation is increasingly accepted as a tool for understanding and assessing the value of public programs and policies. Less understood, however, is how and why evaluation helps to inform judgments of value. This "American Journal of Evaluation" ("AJE") section on Professional Values and Ethics focuses on how values are to influence evaluation practice and on how one's understanding of valuing affects one's view of the ethics that should guide evaluators. In his invited contribution to this section, Ernie House addresses some of the gaps in the understanding of valuing with an essay on Daniel Kahneman's (2011) book "Thinking, Fast and Slow." House summarizes the book's account of the two cognitive capacities that humans bring to valuing and then develops the implications of these two approaches to valuing for the effective practice of evaluation. To introduce House's essay, the current article considers the issues that need to be addressed in valuing public programs and policies and explores the change in the charge for evaluators that comes from understanding two evolved capacities for assessing value. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01