Five ethical issues concerning evaluation studies are discussed: identification of the study's audiences, choices of variables and information sources, cost effectiveness of instrument and procedures, rights of subjects and program personnel to confidentiality, and relationships between the evaluator and program sponsors, participants, and…

The focus is on problems and issues common to both social program evaluation and to evaluation in physical sciences, engineering, medicine, and commerce. Problems discussed include: program implementation; anticipation of success or failure; evaluation data quality; reliability and validity; evaluation design; access to data; data confidentiality;…