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Record W14092155 · doi:10.3138/cjpe.018.003

Balancing Ethical Principles in Evaluation: A Case Study

2003· article· en· W14092155 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Paul Chesterton

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Program Evaluation · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicEvaluation and Performance Assessment
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeglectEngineering ethicsPoliticsIndigenousEthical decisionEthical issuesEthical codePolitical sciencePublic relationsPsychologySociologyLawEngineering

Abstract

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Abstract: In recent years, evaluation societies have developed guidelines, codes, and standards to promote the ethical conduct of evaluation. The development and application of these have highlighted the political nature of evaluation and the inherent conflicts that can arise for evaluators as a result of different bases of ethical decision-making that may be held among themselves and other interested parties. This article examines examples of such conflicts, drawing on an Australian evaluation of care options for indigenous children and young people deemed to be at risk of neglect or abuse. While some conflicts were identified in advance, others emerged during the evaluation. These involved issues such as the appropriateness of the initial focus, risks to further funding, and participation in decision-making about future projects. The article discusses ways in which the conflicts were addressed and identifies implications for evaluation practice and the continuing development of ethical guidelines, codes, and standards.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.098
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.460
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0980.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.580
GPT teacher head0.591
Teacher spread0.011 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2003
Admission routes1
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