Description
The newly released New Directions for Evaluation features a landscape analysis of current evaluation policy, updating an issue providing perspectives from over a decade ago. In that decade, much has changed as the field of evaluation in the federal government matured and a wider recognition about what evaluation policy became accepted: the principles, guidelines, or directives that guide actions about the planning, conduct, or use of evaluation. In government activities, evaluation policies matter because they help determine what form evaluation products take and influence how relevant parties develop, respond, and react to evaluation.
During the Issues in Evaluation session, co-sponsored by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Data Foundation, co-authors of the forthcoming New Directions for Evaluation issue, will present and discuss their research and its implications for the evaluation community. Join GAO and Data Foundation on Thursday, June 2, at 2:00 p.m. ET for the next Issues in Evaluation virtual discussion.