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... The scope of the workshop included evaluations of interventions, programs, and practices intended to affect human behavior, carried out by the federal government or its contractual agents, that result in public reports sponsored by the federal government and are intended to provide information on their impacts, cost, and implementation. BRINGING FEDERAL EVALUATION TO THE FOREFRONT The federal government has taken several steps over the past two decades to bolster the credibility of scientific evidence.
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... . In its chapter entitled "Building the Capacity to Produce and Use Evidence," the Analytical Perspectives Component of the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017 emphasized the importance of establishing centralized or chief evaluation offices in federal agencies and supported the development of guidelines for federal program evaluations, stating that "Many Federal evaluators believe that establishing a common set of government-wide principles and practices for evaluation offices could help to ensure that Federal program evaluations meet scientific standards, are designed to be useful, and are conducted and the results are disseminated without bias or undue influence." The document went on to highlight five fundamental principles in developing standards for evaluation: rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics.
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... At the planning meeting, the cognizant federal agencies decided that a public workshop, with full discussion of existing policies for federal program evaluations and consideration of issues in building on these policies, would be a useful next step. The workshop was to be designed so as not to prejudge the value of a volume along the lines of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency.
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... ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME This proceedings describes the workshop presentations and discussions that followed each topic: see workshop agenda in Appendix A Chapter 2 presents the history of federal program evaluation and its successes and challenges from a variety of perspectives.
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... The views contained in the report are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the steering committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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