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Thomas, R. Murray – 1981
Evaluation errors may be unintentional, caused by incompetence, or intentional caused by mendacity. This report is concerned, not with incompetence, but with the production of educational assessments flawed by an evaluator's deceit. The purposes of the paper are: (1) to identify conditions under which people purposely distort evaluation reports,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Expectation, Honesty
