While the values derived from institutional self-evaluation efforts are fairly well understood, external evaluation is an important process in aiding an institution in the achievement of its goals; it supplements and complements, but does not supplant self-evaluation. Common functions of the external evaluation component of the Advanced Institutional Development (AID) Program include: (1) determining the extent to which the college has developed a continuing internal evaluation system, encompassing its total operations and internal constituencies; (2) examining relationships between institutional goals, mission, and AID Program activity objectives; and (3) determination of adequacy of procedures and processes employed for periodic re-examination of goals and mission, effectiveness assessment, communication of evaluation information, and use of evaluation information in planning. It is not a function of external evaluation to render judgements about the quality or substance of the institution's goals or mission or to render opinions on funding or non-funding of specific activities. The external evaluator's qualifications should include: familiarity with the AID Program, AID monitoring and evaluation concepts, forms, and processes; access to varying expertise needed to evaluate outcomes of the institution's activities; and a background in higher education evaluation. (Author/JDS)