Program Evaluation: Strategies to Facilitate Agencies' Use of Evaluation in Program Management and Policy Making

United States. Government Accountability Office.

United States. Government Accountability Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    government operations;    program evaluation;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GAO-13-570
RP-ID  :  655517

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In a governmentwide survey, GAO found that most federal managers lack recentevaluations of their programs. Thirty-seven percent reported that an evaluation had been completed within the past 5 years of any program, operation, or project they were involved in. Another 40 percent of managers reported that they did not know if an evaluation had been completed. However, 80 percent of managers who did have evaluations reported that those evaluations contributed to a moderate or greater extent to improving program management or performance and to assessing program effectiveness or value. Fewer reported that evaluations contributed moderately or more to allocating resources within a program (67 percent) or streamlining programs (61 percent)."