Collectively, expertise-oriented approaches to evaluation have emphasized the central role of expert judgment, experience, and human wisdom in the evaluative process and have focused attention on such important issues as whose standards (and what degree of transparency) should be used in rendering judgments about programs. Conversely, critics of this approach suggest that it may permit evaluators to make judgments that reflect little more than personal biases. Others have noted that the presumed expertise of the experts is a potential weakness. Those using or contracting for.expertise-oriented evaluations should consider carefully the various areas of expertise required for their team of expert judges. Too often the team contains only content experts, people who know various elements of the subject matter to be judged, but may lack experts in the evaluation process itself. The articulation of standards, whether by the contracting organization or by the team of experts, is also important to clarify the criteria and methods used to make the judgments requested. Of course, as Elliot Eisner would argue, experts should look beyond the standards and use their connoisseurship to describe, interpret, and judge the dimensions they know to be important to the quality of the product. But, articulated standards help to introduce some consistency across experts and to facilitate useful discussions among the experts when disagreements do occur.