Evaluators When It Comes to Reviewing Specific Term Paper

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evaluators when it comes to reviewing specific projects related to social work? This paper reviews and summarizes the specific strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes when it comes to evaluators' appraisal of projects and programs related to social work.

Evaluating social work issues and programs carries with it enormous responsibilities. The Task Force from the American Evaluation Association (AEA) -- in 1986 -- set out to present and adopt a well-thought-out set of standards for the accurate and honest evaluation of social work programs. The problem was that not one of the recommendations by the AEA was adopted, and there were no ethical standards or guiding principles adopted either. Hence, in 1992, the AEA Board established another committee (chaired by David Cordray) whose duty it was to develop "a draft of guiding principles for evaluation" (not specific standards of practice) (Scheirer, et al.).

The report -- "Guiding Principles for Evaluators" -- is reviewed and critiqued in this paper.

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It should be explained that the AEA task force members looked carefully at how other professional societies review relevant programs. Each task force member also presented a progress report at all board meetings, and drafts of the progress were mailed out to all AEA members in 1993 with a request for feedback from those AEA members (Scheirer). A final draft was prepared, after all the input from task force members had been received and considered; and at the AEA board meeting in January 1994, the final draft from the work of the task force was "approved for membership" (Scheirer).

In the completed document, it was stressed that fairness, objectivity, and approved methodology must come into play; and careful consideration of changes that have been made in the project subsequent to original approved plans has been conducted. Evaluators should be candid about their own interests….....

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