Book Review: Internal Evaluation in the 21st Century (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 132)
| Author | Jan Edwards |
| Published date | 01 September 2012 |
| Date | 01 September 2012 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X1201200207 |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
Title:
Internal Evaluation in the 21st Century (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 132)
Editors:
Boris B Volkov and Michelle E Baron
Publisher/year:
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco and the American Evaluation Association, 2011
Extent/type:
117 pages, paperback
Price:
US$29 from Wiley Australia which offers a 15% discount to AES members; phone 1800 777 474 (within Australia),
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ISSN:
1097-6736
This collection is aimed at internal
evaluators were marginalised
educator about evaluation,
evaluators and is only the second
within professional organisations.
evaluation capacity building
published in New Directions for
Love notes an increased demand
(ECB) practitioner (management)
Evaluation on internal evaluation.
for internal evaluators and the
decision-making supporter,
The previous title, Developing
requirement by funding bodies for
consultant, researcher/technician,
Effective Internal Evaluation,
effective performance measurement
advocate, and organisational
was edited by Arnold Love and
and evaluation. However, he
learning supporter as the most
published in 1983. This collection
concludes that evaluation courses
frequently cited categories of
is therefore an overdue addition
are largely inadequate, while
evaluator roles in the literature.
to the literature on internal
evaluators do not have skills in
Internal evaluators need to adapt to
evaluations.
finance, accounting and budgeting
meet the changing needs of modern
The collection includes eight
these are necessary prerequisites
organisations. Volkov argues that
chapters organised in three key
to being able to report cost-
the role is one of harmonisation,
sections. Section 1 includes two
effectiveness.
and promulgation of an evaluative
chapters that provide the basis for
The above history of the
stance across the organisation.
the remainder of the collection.
evolution of internal evaluation is
The final chapter in this
Chapter 1 features an interview
supplemented by Sandra Mathison
section deals with ethics and
between the
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