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Ethical Principles and Evaluation Standards: Do They Match?
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Brown, Robert D.; Newman, Dianna L. – Evaluation Review, 1992
A broad set of ethical principles is examined to determine their relevance for evaluation. The five principles of K. S. Kitchener (autonomy, nonmaleficience, beneficence, justice, and fidelity) are relevant to evaluation and are fully represented in the evaluation standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ethics, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Violations of Evaluation Standards: Frequency and Seriousness of Occurrence.
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Newman, Dianna L.; Brown, Robert D. – Evaluation Review, 1992
Survey items representing 30 standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation were used to examine violations in program evaluations. Twenty-nine novice graduate students, 57 graduate students with moderate knowledge about evaluation, and 61 expert evaluators viewed propriety and accuracy standards as suffering the most…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria
Measuring Comparability of Standards between Subjects: Why Our Statistical Techniques Do Not Make the Grade.
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Newton, Paul E. – British Educational Research Journal, 1997
Focuses on Subject-Pair Analysis, a technique for comparing examinations in different subjects, to demonstrate that reliance on statistical comparisons of standards between subjects is misplaced. Explicates the fundamental assumptions underlying the Subject-Pair Analysis. Argues that this and related analyses are inappropriate for dealing with the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems