ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from the differences between labor market and education policies, and the agencies responsible for their implementation. In Germany, the education sector epitomizes a diversity of regionally based policies and practices while the labor sector reflects the homogeneity of a national labor market policy. The chapter analyses the evaluation cultures of two different policy fields—labor and education. The education sector has been characterized as being very fragmented. Within the education sector, where there is a longer standing tradition of evaluation, movements from the macrolevel to the micro/meso-level and then back to macrolevel evaluation have occurred. In the labor market sector, the various stakeholders are included more in the process of policy formulation than in evaluation itself. The HartzReform was the result of input from various societal perspectives. Three main levels of main stakeholder groups in education can be distinguished: the classroom-level, the school-level, and the level of teacher education.
