Glossary Resources

Provided by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, these resources are intended to improve communication about evaluations.  Input and support have been received from the National Science Foundation and evaluators around the nation.  Sage Publications and Corwin Press have generously permitted inclusion of the glossaries from The Program Evaluation Standards (2nd ed.) and The Student Evaluation Standards.  Appreciation is also extended to the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation .

Selected terms on Center Web pages are displayed in green.  Clicking any of these terms will open a small window with the entry(s) for that term as listed in the glossary database.  Some terms link to additional resources that may be helpful in understanding the term.

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