過去數十年來，標準本位或預定式評鑑取向支配了台灣教育評鑑界。然而，另一方面，自1980 年代以來，一些學者則強烈主張所謂回應式或顧客中心的評鑑取向。他們批評預定式評鑑之發現，對委託評鑑之顧客和評鑑之相關利害關係人難以發揮效用及服務功能，乃主張評鑑應該要更回應於委託者和利害關係人所關注之議題而非預定的評鑑藍圖，更導向於方案的活動而非意圖，更反映方案內部和週遭利害關係者之不同價值觀而非固定的價值判斷標準。換言之，回應式評鑑觀念之產生，是希望增進評鑑發現對方案內部和週遭相關人士之效用性與服務功能。台灣之教育評鑑若欲增進評鑑對委託者和利害關係人士之效用性，發揮其服務功能，則值得對回應式評鑑取向給予更多關注和運用。 基於此，本文乃以Robert E. Stake 的論著為對象，分析探討回應式評鑑取向之源起和發展、核心觀念和實施方法，以及其理論命題；此外，亦對回應式評鑑之核心觀念與命題予以評論，並據此引申其對國內課程評鑑的一些提議。

For several decades, the standard-based or preordinate evaluation approach has assumed a dominant position in educational evaluation in Taiwan. However, on the other hand, some evaluation scholars have been strongly recommended an alternative evaluation approach, named responsive or client-centered evaluation, since 1980’s. Inspired by the criticism of uselessness in the finding of the preordinate evaluation for the clients and the stakeholders of the evaluation, they argued that evaluation should be more responsive to the concerning issues of the clients and stakeholders rather than to a preordinate evaluation plan, more oriented to the program activities rather than to its intents, more reflective to the different value perspectives of the people in and around the program rather than to a fixed evaluation standard. In other words, the responsive evaluation is created by the idea of increasing the usefulness of the evaluation finding for persons in and around the program. It is worth of paying more attention to, and making more use of, the responsive evaluation approach for Taiwan educational evaluators if they want the educational evaluation to be more useful for the clients and the stakeholders in and around the program. To this end, the article inquires into the conceptual rising and forming, the core ideas and study methods, and the methodological assumptions of the responsive evaluation, based on Robert E. Stake’s writings. In addition to this, the author also discusses some criticism of the responsive evaluation and provides some suggestions for its implementation in the curriculum evaluation in Taiwan.