Evaluation accountability

Evaluation accountability relates to processes in place to ensure the evaluation is carried out transparently and to a high-quality standard.

This can include institutional processes in place for internal or external review of evaluation quality. Evaluation accountability is one of the clusters of evaluation standards produced by the Joint Committee on Educational Standards:

"Evaluation accountability standards

The evaluation accountability standards encourage adequate documentation of evaluations and a metaevaluative perspective focused on improvement and accountability for evaluation processes and products.

• E1 Evaluation Documentation: Evaluations should fully document their negotiated purposes and implemented designs, procedures, data, and outcomes.
• E2 Internal Metaevaluation: Evaluators should use these and other applicable standards to examine the accountability of the evaluation design, procedures employed, information collected, and outcomes.
• E3 External Metaevaluation: Program evaluation sponsors, clients, evaluators, and other stakeholders should encourage the conduct of external metaevaluations using these and other applicable standards."

See also Transparency as a criterion for what constitutes a high quality evaluation, and for processes for meta-evaluation see Review evaluation quality.