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... Whitehurst said that while the evaluation principles that are currently in place are very sound, they need legislation to help give them permanence and stability. He sees the legislation taking one of two forms: • drafting legislation on an agency-by-agency basis that supports the creation of independent research and evaluation agencies and affords them protections and statutory guidelines (such as that for the Institute of Education Sciences)
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... He reiterated the importance of peer review as a system that can hold the producers of the work responsible for its quality, and he reminded participants of OMB's prior practice of putting a process in place to rate the quality of evaluation efforts as another accountability measure. Baron added that the proper use of peer review and techniques like specifying confirmatory versus exploratory hypotheses could also be leveraged to influence similar processes in scholarly journals, whose peer review protocol is sometimes not as rigorous.
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