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EPTF Week: Evaluation Policy and Foundations: How the Work of Foundations can Help Inform Evaluation Policy and Vice Versa by Katrina Bledsoe

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 29, 2018 June 23, 2018

Hi, I’m Katrina Bledsoe, a member of the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) Evaluation Policy Task Force (EPTF), a research scientist at Education Development Center, and principal consultant of Katrina Bledsoe Consulting. Throughout this week, members of the EPTF highlighted ways evaluation can inform policy at the federal and state levels, and within the public sector. …

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EPTF Week: Affecting Policy in the Public Sector by Tom Chapel

3 Comments / Uncategorized / June 28, 2018 June 23, 2018

I’m Tom Chapel. I’m a current AEA Board member and also serve in a senior evaluation position with a Federal agency. I’ve been consulting on evaluation and how to incent evaluation capacity in all types of organizations for several decades. I’m not sure that setting evaluation policy in general is significantly different than setting evaluation …

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EPTF Week: Implementing the Evaluation Recommendations from the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking by Nick Hart

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 27, 2018 June 23, 2018

I’m Nick Hart, the current chair of the EPTF and Director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Initiative. In 2016, Congress and the president established a federal Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking that studied how to improve government’s infrastructure for evidence building, and offered a series of recommendations about strengthening government’s evidence capacity, among other …

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EPTF Week: How Evaluators’ Responses to Federal Register Notices Can be Most Useful to the Government by Demetra Smith Nightingale

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / June 26, 2018 June 23, 2018

Hi, I’m Demetra Smith Nightingale currently at the Urban Institute and previously at the US Department of Labor. I want to take the opportunity to briefly describe how responding to information government publishes in the Federal Register can be useful. There are many different types of notices posted for public comment in the Federal Register, …

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EPTF Week: AEA’s Roadmap for Using Evaluation to Improve Government Performance by Stephanie Shipman

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / June 25, 2018 June 23, 2018

Hi, I’m Stephanie Shipman, a founding member of AEA’s Evaluation Policy Task Force. I recently retired from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) where I found AEA’s Evaluation Roadmap extremely useful when consulting with U.S. and foreign agencies on how to organize an effective evaluation office. Rad Resource: The Task Force’s “An Evaluation Roadmap for …

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EPTF Week: How does AEA influence federal evaluation policy? By Nick Hart and EPTF members

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 24, 2018 June 23, 2018

Federal evaluation policies have the potential to affect the direction of the evaluation field, the implementation of our craft, and ultimately the interpretation of how well policies and programs are implemented and achieve their intended goals. Recognizing the growing dialogue about the evaluation function within the federal government, the American Evaluation Association established the Evaluation …

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