The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation was founded in 1975 to develop standards for educational evaluation. Originally initiated by the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, the Joint Committee now includes many other organizations in its membership. AEA is one of those organizations, and has a representative to the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee has has developed several sets of standards pertaining to educational evaluation, and this site provides a link to a summary of those standards below. AEA has not formally adopted any of these standards, but it does support the Joint Committee's work in developing evaluation standards. Further information about the Joint Committee's work can be obtained from The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI 49008-5178.