Linking Auditing and Metaevaluation: Enhancing Quality in Applied Research

This is a monograph which attempts to bridge the disciplines of metaevaluation and auditing. Both the fields of evaluation and metaevaluation are relatively new as compared to the field of auditing, yet their applications are quite similar. Because of their relative newness, evaluation and metaevaluation do not have the generally accepted standards and principles found in auditing. As such, it seems that the field of auditing may lend some advice either metaphorically or pragmatically to the field of metaevaluation. Lessons may be learned from auditing procedures and methods, or from the formalized efforts in auditing to develop a body of generally accepted professional standards among practitioners.