THE CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY IN EVALUATION - NARROW VERSUS EXPANSIVE PERSPECTIVES

As program evaluation has developed over the last twenty years into a viable profession, its central challenge has become to define what it means to be an evaluator This debate is fueled less by traditional div isions between academic and service-related professionals, or disagree ments over methodologies, than by sharply different visions of the eva luator's moral and political role, derived from the profession's histo ric roofs in principles of social justice and concern for individual r ights.