ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the games played about the "debatability" of a self-evaluation conducted by the Danish Evaluation Institute ("EVA"). An evaluation institute is no neophyte when it comes to the political games around evaluation. People at EVA are likely to have experienced a large variety of games played in relation to evaluation. The very way in which the self-evaluation was handled provides enough choices, strategies, and techniques that illustrate some of the games of power which can be played by an evaluation institution. An alternative view has to do with evaluation as a symptom of what Beck calls "reflexive modernization." In 1992, the Danish Evaluation Center began to carry out evaluations of higher education in Denmark. EVA plays a decisive role in taking the initiative and setting the agenda. EVA thus has the chance to get the evaluation going at a time EVA finds convenient.
