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Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Pages 45-48

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... Appendix A Workshop Agenda Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation October 27, 2016 Keck Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC Room 100 Thursday, October 27, 2016 Open Session, 9:00am–4:30pm 9:00am Call to Order Breakfast available outside the meeting room Welcome and Introduction Connie Citro, Director, Committee on National Statistics Christine Fortunato, Administration for Children and Families Purpose of the Workshop Russ Whitehurst, Brookings Institution, Committee Chair The steering committee for the workshop will facilitate discussion on principles and practices for federal program evaluation, to include reviews of extant policies issued by the Administration for Children and Families, the Institute for Education Sciences, the Chief Evaluation Office in the Department of Labor, and other federal agencies. Through out the workshop we will consider ways to build upon these documents, including ways to institutionalize the principles, with the goal of bolstering the integrity and protecting the objectivity of the evaluation function in federal agencies, which is essential for evidence-based policy making.
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... Discussants: Jean Grossman, Princeton University; Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution; Larry Orr, Johns Hopkins University History of federal program evaluation and its successes, challenges, and vicissitudes from a variety of perspectives, including formal federal government evaluation leaders, evi dence-based policy advocates, and social policy researchers and producers. 10:20am Break 10:35am  of Present Principles by Topic and Agency Coverage Review  Moderator: Brian Harris-Kojetin, CNSTAT Deputy Director Discussants: Naomi Goldstein Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
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... Although the five principles in current agency guidance -- rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics -- seem uncontestable, challenges arise in balancing them, especially since advancing high-quality evaluations requires both obtaining sustained funding and engaging the best tal ent. This discussion will focus on the components necessary to advance high-quality evaluations, protect the infrastructure that supports them, and ensure that the evaluations produce results that a broad community of politicians, practitioners, and funders consider objective and useful.
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... 4:00pm  of Principles & Practices for Federal Program Future Evaluation: A Discussion about Next Steps  Moderator: Russ Whitehurst, Brookings Institution (Committee Chair) This concluding session will focus on themes from the preced ing sessions and consider potential future steps for articulat ing and strengthening principles and practices for federal program evaluation and the evaluation function itself.
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