External evaluation
DEFINITION 1: An evaluation carried out by evaluators external to the entity evaluated.
SOURCE: TESE (Thesaurus for Education Systems in Europe), Eurydice, 2009
HYPERLINK: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/eurydice/portal/page/portal/Eurydice/TESEHome
DEFINITION 2: An evaluation which is performed by persons outside the organisation responsible for the intervention itself.
SOURCE: Glossary of Evaluation Terms, UK Evaluation Society
HYPERLINK: http://www.evaluation.org.uk/resources/glossary.aspx
RELATED TERMS: evaluation, internal evaluation, impact evaluation, process evaluation, self-assessment, self-evaluation