After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Distinguish between merit and worth of an educational program, policy, product, or process
2. Identify who potential stakeholders are in an evaluation.
3. Distinguish between evaluation and research.
4. Describe the standards that are used to guide evaluations (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation).
5. Identify three uses for program evaluations.
6. Describe the limitations of program evaluation.
7. Summarize the ethical responsibilities of the evaluator and how to address them.
8. Distinguish between internal and external evaluation.
9. Distinguish between formative and summative evaluation.
10. Distinguish between expertise-oriented and consumer oriented evaluation approaches.
11. Distinguish the difference and similarities between the four program-oriented approaches to evaluation (objective-oriented, logic models, theory-based, and goal-free evaluation).
12. Distinguish the difference and similarities between the two approaches to decisionoriented evaluation (the CIPP model and utilization-focused evaluation).
13. Distinguish the difference and similarities between the four approaches to participant-oriented evaluation (responsive, developmental, empowerment and deliberative democratic). Identify which are practical participatory and transformative participatory.