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November 8, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
• Ethics, Morality, Values Distinctions
• Ethics, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Justice
• Individual versus Collective Concerns
• Professional versus Social Concerns
• Professional vs Organizational Concerns
• Ethics, Professional Ethics and PE

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November 8, 2005 POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Practice and Program Objectives
• Timing,Selection,Interpretation,Evaluation
• EthicalConflictsandAccountability(towhom)
• Considerations Goals and Objectives
• Considerations Procedures Used
• Considerations Timing, Status, Respect
• Considerations Dissemination/Openness
• Considerations Uses of Evaluation(s)

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November 8, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Professional Standards and Ethics
• 4Criteria of Professionalism in Evaluations
• Utility function for stakeholders (which?)
• Feasibility time, attitudes, support, politics
• Fairness 5 considerations just cited
• Accuracy both a technical and a political aspect
• Involves both commission and omission
• Where ethics meets competence/performance

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November 8, 2005POLS4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Uses and Misuses of Evaluations
• As justification for prior decision/action
• As p.r. exercise no intention to implement
• As device for rating individual performance
• To fulfill a formal/funding requirement
• Proper uses guides to internal decisions
• Proper uses guides to external decisions

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November 8, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• How to establish a constructive context
• Emphasize continuity of data collection
• Emphasize feedback for service quality
• Emphasize involvement of staff
• Emphasize responsible dissemination
• Program goals and program objectives
• Practice goals/objectives and individual
  performance