Abstract
From academic years 2000 to 2003, the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE) implemented evaluations of selected universities on a trial basis. Evaluation can be regarded as an intervention and subsequently the target of a program evaluation. After the NIAD-UE trial evaluation was compleated, a meta-evaluation was conducted to clarify its outputs and outcomes, including successful aspects and problems, through questionnaire surveys and interviews with the evaluators and the evaluated. As a result, it was made clear that the process and the result of the evaluation had led to the improvement of universities' educational and research activities. However, many of the persons engaged in the evaluation pointed out their considerable burden. Apathy of both other university staff and the public about the evaluation also remained a problem for making an effective evaluation system. Moreover, the concept of cost effectiveness should be introduced to the new settings of university evaluations, because the evaluation cost was worse especially for research assessment.
