The Office for Research has also developed the Program Evaluation Core (“PEC”) to address the program evaluation needs of training grants. The PEC provides a range of pre- and post-award services ...

Download a two-pager on Reviewing What Works tools (pdf) Download a two-pager on Design for Success tools (pdf) Less than one-third of Americans have confidence that the federal government can solve ...

Jitinder Kohli, William D. Eggers, and John Griffith lay out a system for designing and evaluating effective government programs. Less than one-third of Americans have confidence that the federal ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 21, No. 3 (April 2012), pp. 487-494 (8 pages) Objectives Program evaluations are frequently based on ' then-test' data, i.e., pre-test collected in retrospect. While the ...

This post is by Pam Blumenthal (@Pamelamapdx), Director of Links Programs, which includes Future Connect (@GetTherePDX), at Portland Community College (@PortlandCC). Today’s post is the practitioner ...

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a widely used method for planning and coordinating large-scale projects. As Harold Kerzner explained in his book Project Management, “PERT is ...

The Division of Evaluation, Assessment and Education Research within the School of Medicine provides expertise, advising and administrative support related to program evaluation, performance ...

Lauren Camphausen knew exactly what she wanted, but she wondered how to make it real. She wanted to help people, to be a force for good in the world. She wanted to earn her graduate degree and find ...

The mission of the Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) is to conduct research on program evaluation methods as well as to offer evaluation planning, consulting, training and services for the ...

The Poverty Center staff conduct program evaluations to help organizations understand the extent to which they are meeting their program and/or project goals, the impact they are having on the people ...