Violations of Evaluation Standards: Frequency and Seriousness of Occurrence.

Newman, Dianna L.; Brown, Robert D.

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Publication Date: 1992

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Violations of Evaluation Standards: Frequency and Seriousness of Occurrence.

Newman, Dianna L.; Brown, Robert D.

Evaluation Review, v16 n3 p219-34 Jun 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 serious violations. (SLD)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems, Evaluators, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Standards, Student Attitudes, Surveys

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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