Evaluation and trust

Norris, N. and Kushner, S. (2007) Evaluation and trust. In: Dilemmas of Engagement: Evaluation and the New Public Management. Elsevier, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9780762313426

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Abstract

This paper is part of an edited collection on evaluation and the new public management commissioned by Elsevier in their Advances in Program Evaluation series. The paper discusses trust and evaluation. It considers the nature of trust and the ways in which it has been undermined by the accountability relationships characteristic of the new public management. The paper argues that as evaluation has become institutionalised it invites strategic action that can deceive and distort organisational goals. The paper concludes by exploring the social foundations of evaluation and the importance of reciprocity, respect and trust to effective evaluation. Although trust is of considerable importance to the practice of evaluation, it has received very little attention in the literature on educational evaluation or the wider literature on programme and policy evaluation. This is the first systematic treatment of trust in the context of evaluation. It is a contribution to evaluation theory.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	mid:13689 dc:rights:Copyright clearance pending dc:ueastatus:post-print formatted dc:ueahesastaffidentifier:0000807120046
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2010 18:02
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2022 23:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16357
DOI:	10.1016/S1474-7863(07)10010-7

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