A company director engages an independent evaluator to prepare her employees to evaluate one of the company’s programs. The evaluator provides the employees with a brief training session on sound evaluation procedures. The employees then evaluate the selected program; produce a final, highly positive evaluation report; and identify the external evaluator as the report’s principal author.

With the external evaluator’s concurrence, the company director then sends the report to the program’s outside funding agency. What form of pseudoevaluation is this, and what are its main flaws?