Abstract

In most underserved communities, technology literacy programs aid in bridging the digital divide of low-income youth and adults who lack access to 21st-century technology. These programs critically need evaluators to conduct metaevaluations to ensure their longevity and sustainability. A metaevaluation is an evaluation of an evaluation, which uses evaluation standards to provide a judgment based on defensible criteria about sound and accountable contributions of an evaluation. In this article, we present the findings of a metaevaluation conducted using the Program Evaluation Standards developed by The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. As such, we also describe the function of metaevaluations to judge how well standards are met based on four attributes: utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. Our implications are intended to broaden future evaluation endeavors in underserved communities.