The evaluation of the Innovations Programs in NSW began in late 1975. The Schools Commission decided that evaluation should be a requisite for all projects. A committee was formed in 1975 to provide expertise in evaluation and to help conduct evaluations. The first task of this committee was the interpretation of the Schools Commission (1975) Guidelines. The committee initiated a series of external or augmented evaluations. The committee also defined its role, providing in the process, a document, 'Purposes and Procedures', which could act as a guide to external and internal evaluators. In recent years, the committee, responding to the Schools Commission (1977) Guidelines has set in motion an evaluation counselling service, a new form of 'assisted' evaluation for innovative projects, and has provided education in evaluation for Counsellors and Innovators through the development of materials and through workshops and conferences. A fifteen point criteria has been used to discuss the twenty one completed Augmented Evaluations in the program to date. At the same time the criteria has been used as a basis for discussion of a sample (1 in 5) of the completed inhouse evaluation reports (General Evaluations). Questionnaires have been used to elicit further information about the impact and procedures for both types of evaluation.