Final evaluation and research design

Ethical Dilemma for a Program Evaluator

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Ethical Dilemma for a Program Evaluator

It is important both ethically and practically to have considerations in organizations when having either external or internal evaluation for evaluators as well as practitioners when there is assessing of programs that are constructed to hold philosophical and ideological approaches. Getting to know whether designed projects are working well in an organization have the advantage of holding strong moral, financial aspects to a business or any firm(Chen,2005).Both the evaluators and the stakeholders should be clear in what they want and highest degree of professionalism should be maintained.

Evaluators should take part in inquiries that are systematic and data based. The evaluators should put this principle at the front and they should make sure that they the information being evaluated meets the credibility and the accuracy that is required. This means that Fiona as an evaluator should be ready to put the highest standards to the methods that are used (Chen, 2005).Both the stakeholders and the evaluators should look at the strengths and shortcomings that the various evaluation questions will raise. It cannot be in order for the Stakeholders to try and coerce the evaluators to give information that is not correct.

Honesty is also a principle that the evaluators should have as a behavior so as to bring out the integrity of the whole process (Spaulding, 2008).In this scenario the evaluators are tasked with being truthful to the stakeholders and clients in regards to the methodology limitations the expected results and evaluators should clarify on the emerging matters. The interests of the stakeholders should also be considered and protected .In the case of the evaluators, they should work in harmony with the evaluators and make sure the evaluation process becomes successful.

References

Chen, L. (2005). Practical program evaluation: assessing and improving planning,

Implementation, and effectiveness. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage.

Spaulding, D. (2008). Program evaluation in practice: core concepts and examples for

Discussion and analysis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.