Evaluation Ideologies

Abstract

Evaluation practice is still the victim of fallacious ideologies, because we have not applied the essential insight that evaluation is a self-referent discipline. The plethora of evaluation models provides a fascinating perspective on the complexity of this new subject, perhaps the keystone in the arch of disciplined intellectual endeavor. We can only build that arch strong enough to support the huge load of educational and social enterprises that it must bear if we come to understand its architecture and thus the function of its keystone considerably better, and in so doing, come to understand better everything else that we know.