Evidence Building And Evaluation In Government
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Author | : Kathryn Newcomer |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1071808753 |
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Public managers, contractors, and grantees conducting evaluations for government operate in complex environment where policymakers and commissioners of evaluation expect different types of “evidence” and simultaneously employ different criteria in judging the quality of that evidence. This text provides a road map for evaluators doing business within or for government, and public managers who are expected to assess and use evidence generated by a large variety of evaluation approaches. The book provides checklists and how-to guidance to help students and other readers develop skills in important activities such as: assessing the quality of evidence claims; developing theories of change to guide the design and evaluation of programs and policies; developing learning agendas to bridge the gap between evidence producers and potential evidence users; and increasing the support of public leaders and executives in the generation and use of evidence to inform their decision-making. The authors include end-of-chapter exercises for readers to test their ability to apply the skills described.
Author | : George Julnes |
Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007-04-20 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780787997342 |
Download Informing Federal Policies on Evaluation Methodology: Building the Evidence Base for Method Choice in Government Sponsored Evaluations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
One of the most divisive issues in the evaluation community has been the debate over which methodologies are to be considered adequate or commendable in addressing different evaluation questions in different settings. One form of this debate involved opposing camps of proponents of qualitative versus quantitative methods. A decade ago, there was some hope that the two sides of this debate, referred to as the paradigm war, were learning to respect each other. More recently, however, a federal agency priority for funding random assignment experimental studies has reignited the debate. This volume provides a space for a productive dialogue that, by identifying areas of agreement but also fundamental differences, will promote a more durable working consensus on the circumstances in which some methods are to be preferred over others. The chapter authors and discussants make clear that there are different types of evidence with which to inform this dialogue, including empirical findings of the impact of method choice on evaluation outcomes, the evidence contained in the wisdom of practice, and the results of critical analyses of the broader social impacts of method choice. The editors build on these contributions to suggest pragmatic policies for federal agencies, promoting both context-appropriate method choice and the importance of managing portfolios of evaluative research that maintain desired distributions of methodologies. This is the 113th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, a publication of Jossey-Bass and the American Evaluation Association.
Author | : George Julnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Evaluation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gladys Lopez-Acevedo |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 082139505X |
Download Building Better Policies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Monitoring and Evaluation Systems are a critical component of evidence-based policymaking. This book aims to help governments and civil society organizations design, implement and use M and E information drawing from best practice experiences.
Author | : Francis Yin Yee Lau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2016-11 |
Genre | : Medical care |
ISBN | : 9781550586015 |
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Author | : Mary Kay Gugerty |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019936608X |
Download The Goldilocks Challenge Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The recent push for impact measurement has been positive, but it has also led to wasted resources and often misleading data about what works. In The Goldilocks Challenge, Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan put forth four key principles to guide organizations of all sizes to create strong, "right-fit" data collection systems.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264473157 |
Download OECD Public Governance Reviews Building Capacity for Evidence-Informed Policy-Making Lessons from Country Experiences Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This report analyses the skills and capacities governments need to strengthen evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) and identifies a range of possible interventions that are available to foster greater uptake of evidence. Increasing governments’ capacity for evidence-informed is a critical part of good public governance. However, an effective connection between the supply and the demand for evidence in the policy-making process remains elusive. This report offers concrete tools and a set of good practices for how the public sector can support senior officials, experts and advisors working at the political/administrative interface. This support entails investing in capability, opportunity and motivation and through behavioral changes. The report identifies a core skillset for EIPM at the individual level, including the capacity for understanding, obtaining, assessing, using, engaging with stakeholders, and applying evidence, which wasdeveloped in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Centre. It also identifies a set of capacities at the organisational level that can be put in place across the machinery of government, throughout the role of interventions, strategies and tools to strengthen these capacities. The report concludes with a set of recommendations to assist governments in building their capacities.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264851380 |
Download OECD Public Governance Reviews Mobilising Evidence for Good Governance Taking Stock of Principles and Standards for Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Governments are seeking to improve evidence-based policy making as well as trust in decision-making processes. This report offers a first global mapping of principles for the good governance of evidence in policy making, as well as standards of evidence from a significant range of OECD countries and international research bodies.
Author | : Donald B. Yarbrough |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1412986567 |
Download The Program Evaluation Standards Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations.
Author | : Joel Nantais |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Machine learning |
ISBN | : |
Download Towards Reduced Administrative Burdens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This dissertation explores how existing standards for performance management and measurement through data analytics in the federal government can be leveraged to identify and measure administrative burdens with the aim of reducing their impact. This work focuses on the use of machine learning to solve implementation problems like administrative burdens, complete with the design, development, and implementation considerations that are specific to machine learning in the United States federal government. Finally, this work explores how to use the existing requirements for evidence-based policymaking and evaluation in the federal government to determine the impact of the machine learning solutions, as well as the impact of the reduced administrative burdens on the outcomes and goals of programs. This research demonstrates that administrative burdens in the federal government systems and processes can be identified and addressed without new legislation, regulation, or resources and that machine learning techniques are poised to provide solutions to public problems. This presents an opportunity for the federal government to refocus on providing performance data, administrative data, and information about existing uses of machine learning available to the public in a way that can benefit the academic research field; this lack of availability has follow-on impacts on the public sector.