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Credibility Gaps and the Institutionalizing of Educational Evaluation Functions

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Ashburn, Arnold G. – Planning and Changing, 1973

Institutionalizing the evaluation function within educational institutions serves both accountability and decisionmaking. One of the greatest problems is the reliability of evaluation in formation. Provides guidelines for avoiding credibility gaps that derive from the characteristics of personnel and from the nature of the organizational…

Descriptors: Accountability, Credibility, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation and Decision Making

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Alkin, Marvin C. – Planning and Changing, 1973

Argues that the mere presentation of evaluative data is hardly apt to improve decisionmaking. Suggests that, to meet the needs of different decisionmakers, methods of information presentation be developed to assure that the right person get the proper information, at the proper time, and in the proper format. (Author/JF)

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Environmental Influences