Internal Evaluation in the 21st Century New Directions for Evaluation, Number 132 - J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation

Nowadays, a considerable amount of evaluation work is implementedinternally-both nationally and across the world. As such, itis exceedingly important for evaluators and organizations to beaware of the issues in designing and implementing internalevaluation to realize its potential for enhancing organizationalgrowth, competitive advantage, and social impact. This issueincludes perspectives on internal evaluation from experiencedevaluation practitioners from different fields and organizationswho share theoretical and practical examples and case studies inpromoting and conducting internal evaluation. The chapters:

• Highlight societal and organizational changes that have shaped thecurrent trends in internal evaluation
• Discuss foundational issues in internal evaluation
• Provide rich illustrations of internal evaluation practice indifferent settings with diverse foci (customer-driven vision and aresults-based orientation for evaluation, accountability anddevelopment, and building evaluation capacity).

This is the 132nd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Evaluation, an officialpublication of the American Evaluation Association.