TY - BOOK AU - Yarbrough,Donald B. ED - Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. TI - The program evaluation standards: a guide for evaluators and evaluation users SN - 9781412986564 (cloth) AV - LB3051 .P648 2011 U1 - 379.1/54 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE KW - Educational tests and measurements KW - United States KW - Educational evaluation N1 - At head of title: Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation; Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-324) and index; The Joint Committee Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Author Page -- Introduction -- Applying the Standards -- The Functional Table of Standards -- THE STANDARDS -- Part.1: Utility -- Part. 2: Feasibility -- Part.3: Propriety -- Part.4: Accuracy -- Part.5: Evaluation Accountability -- Appendix A: The 1981 Program Evaluation Standards -- Appendix B: The 1994 Program Evaluation Standards -- Appendix C: Resources and Support -- Glossary -- Documentation Reference Lists -- Index N2 - Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations ER -