Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) program evaluation standards

This resource from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation provides statements that describe each of the standards developed to support program evaluation.

The third edition of the Program Evaluation Standards was produced by the Joint Committee on Educational Evaluation Standards in 2010. The six-year development process relied on formal and informal needs assessments; reviews of existing scholarship; and the involvement of more than 400 stakeholders in national and international reviews, field trials, and national hearing.

The 30 standards are arranged into 5 groups – utility (8 standards), feasibility (4 standards), propriety (7 standards), accuracy (8 standards), and evaluation accountability (3 standards). A summary of the standards is available online and more detail is available in a published book.