ABSTRACT
Over the past decades public sector institutions have, to an unprecedented extent, been subjected to evaluations.59 This has also been the case in institutions of higher learning, where evaluations have traditionally been restricted mainly to academic posts and scholarly publications. Although the methods discussed in this chapter apply to evaluation in any field of public policy, we shall illustrate them using universities as examples. Today it is common that not only individual scholars and publications but universities and schools as a whole are objects of evaluation. The typical method is still based on peer reviews. The evaluation process has several phases consisting of setting the goals of evaluation, gathering the review board, self-evaluation of the unit to be focused upon, etc.
