| Abstract: | Conclusion An art is best observed, and the effort to specify the criteria for watching art is a worthy enterprise. Like all  art criticism, however, it is not clear to me that we will always have convergence in our evaluations. If theInterim Guidelines are tested in more settings (and subjected to test validation studies) we will learn more about whether it is possible to create a science of evaluation in this field.With all my reservations, I still applaud the effort to create standards for evaluation, based on actual performance of the task. I hope there will be further opportunity to test and refine these performance standards so that they may be used in a professionally responsible way to facilitate good screening, training, and evaluation of mediators in a wide variety of settings.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024-1476. |
