Professional Standards and
Principles for |
Instructor: Dr. Michael Morris Description: Professional standards and principles are essential guides for effective and ethical evaluation practice. They provide criteria for designing comprehensive evaluations; for stimulating use of findings; and for teaching clients what evaluation is and what can and should be expected from evaluative efforts. And, when used in proposal development, may provide evidence of evaluator knowledge and capability. This course will introduce the Joint Committee's Program Evaluation Standards and AEA's Guiding Principles, examine strategies for using them to enhance evaluation quality, and explore issues that can arise in their application (e.g., dealing with conflicting priorities, generalizing across disciplines and cultures). The course also addresses how the Standards/Principles can be employed to prevent, and respond effectively to, ethical problems encountered as an evaluation unfolds. Participants will have an opportunity to apply their learning to case studies involving evaluation planning and ethical challenges. A copy of AEA's Guiding Principles and the Joint Committee's Program Evaluation Standards text (Sage, 1994) and other course materials will be provided as a part of the registration fee.Certificate: CEP IA.d |