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Cross-Cutting Issues in International Standards Development
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Russon, Craig – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
This issue has presented seven previous chapters on international program evaluation standards. Chapter One defined terms and identified major themes. Subsequent chapters examined evaluation standards created in North America, Europe, and Africa; those contemplated in Australasia; and the evaluation standards created by the European Commission and…
Descriptors: International Programs, Program Evaluation, Standard Setting, Foreign Countries
The Development and Status of Evaluation Standards in Western Europe
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Widmer, Thomas – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
For many years, the European evaluation community did not recognize evaluation standards as a relevant tool for quality assurance. References to the developments in the United States were exceptionally rare in the European evaluation literature during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the first articles on evaluation standards to appear in the European…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Standard Setting, Evaluation, Quality Control
Data- and Literature-Based Reflections on Western European Evaluation Standards and Practices
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Beywl, Wolfgang; Speer, Sandra – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
Evaluation standards can be useful not only as a framework for the design but as an assessment of particular evaluations. They can also serve as indicators for the developmental stage of evaluation practice in different areas or countries. Until recently, there has not been any large-scale and comprehensive empirical investigation of knowledge and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Standard Setting, Evaluators
Background and History of the Joint Committee's Program Evaluation Standards
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Yarbrough, Donald B.; Shulha, Lyn M.; Caruthers, Flora – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
It is generally thought that evaluation originated with the civil service exams that were administered in ancient China. However, modern evaluation and, of particular importance to this article, evaluation standards, originated in the United States. Why this occurred is part of a larger question about the development of social and educational…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Standard Setting, Foreign Countries, International Programs
National Evaluation Standards for Australia and New Zealand: Many Questions but Few Answers
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Fraser, Doug – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
Australia and New Zealand stand out as something of an anomaly in the international trend toward developing common standards for evaluation. The national professional association that covers evaluation in both countries, the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES), was one of the earliest and most proactive in developing a comprehensive code of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries, Ethics
The CARE International Evaluation Standards
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Rugh, Jim – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
The 1996 American Evaluation Association conference in Atlanta featured a session on strategies to promote monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). At that time, there was a lengthy list of proposed initiatives to be undertaken in CARE. With the perspective of hindsight and reviewing the…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Program Development