1st Edition

The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation

124 Pages

by Routledge

124 Pages

by Routledge

124 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors’ considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during the evaluation process, particularly that of the responsive or democratic type. It looks at the evaluator’s claim... Read more

Introduction: the Ethics of Evaluation
Clem Adelman

1. Confidentiality and the Right to Know
Richard Pring

2. Methodology and Ethics
John Elliott

3. Handling Value Issues
Michael Eraut

4. Understudy – Evaluator Seeks Authors
Clem Adelman

5. Negotiating Conditions for Independent Evaluators
Helen Simons

6. Evaluation: A Case of Research in Chains
Ian Jamieson

7. Evaluating Curriculum Evaluation
Lawrence Stenhouse

Guidelines I: Principles and Procedures for the Conduct of an Independent Evaluation
Helen Simons

Guidelines II: What Can be Said; What Must be Said
Ann McAllister