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Essay / Importance of ethical dilemmas in design, monitoring...
(Dugan & Bush, 2014) Know yourself and the client, acquire knowledge, experience and skills to alleviate ethical dilemmas, and putting in place mechanisms and processes to deal with emerging dilemmas are the three main strategies that can refine the “ethical compass” of the evaluator, manager and client. (Dugan & Bush, 2014) Knowing yourself and your client can help. The main ethical issues in program design are consideration of risks and benefits, informed consent, confidentiality and ensuring safety. When carrying out an assessment, any harm that may result from an assessment should be considered and steps taken to reduce them. Everyone who participates in the evaluation process should do so voluntarily. Finally, the evaluation data must remain confidential and the safety of participants must be ensured. On the other hand, ethical issues related to evaluator roles could be feasibility, accuracy, timeliness and usefulness. The evaluation must be realistic and practical, the information must be collected and analyzed accurately and impartially, it must be legal and ethical and it must address important questions, provide clear and understandable results and provide meaningful information.