Setting Standards and Providing Guidelines: The Means toward What End?

Since evaluation systems are context dependent, they must take into account constituents' needs, wants, and expectations plus other variables such as pertinent societal values, customs, and mores; relevant laws and statutes; economic dynamics; political forces; media interests; pertinent substantive criteria; organizational mission, goals, and priorities; organizational governance, management, protocols, and operating routines; and the organization's history and current challenges. (Stufflebeam, 2002). Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd