Washington Evaluators Brownbag Session

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -- 12 noon to 1:30pm

Marvin Center, 800 21st Street, Room 308, N.W. Washington, DC 20052

The George Washington University

Dr. Stephanie Shipman

Designing Evaluations

Abstract

The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently released an updated version of a methodology transfer paper, Designing Evaluations: 2012 Revision (GAO-12-208G), which has served as a reference in GAO and federal agency evaluation offices. It has been updated to reflect performance measurement and evaluation thinking and practice post-GPRA and the expansion of program evaluation to the full range of federal programs and policies. The guide introduces key issues in planning evaluation studies of federal programs and describes a variety of evaluation designs for answering different types of questions about program performance–from examining the implementation of national programs to assessing the effectiveness of specific practices or interventions. The guide is intended to help GAO evaluators and others plan useful evaluations and become educated consumers of evaluation.

The guide can be accessed on GAO’s home page at http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-208G

Bio of Presenter

Dr. Stephanie Shipman is an Assistant Director of the Center for Evaluation Methods and Issues of the Applied Research and Methods Team at GAO, where she directs studies of federal performance measurement and program evaluation methods and activities. She serves on the American Evaluation Association’s Evaluation Policy Task Force and is also a founder and coordinator of Federal Evaluators, an informal network of evaluation officials. 

Nearest Metro Station:   Foggy Bottom (orange and blue lines)

Please RSVP to Brian Yoder at brianlyoder@gmail.com by February 27, 2012