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Session Title: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education’s Portfolio Evaluation Approach: Focus on Questions That Provide High Value Answers
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Multipaper Session 277 to be held in CROCKETT D on Thursday, Nov 11, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM
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Sponsored by the Government Evaluation TIG
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| Chair(s): |
| Joyce Winterton,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, joyce.l.winterton@nasa.gov
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NASA’s Requirements for and Uses of Program Evaluation
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| Brian Yoder, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, brian.yoder@nasa.gov
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| Abstract:
NASA’s evaluation requirements arise from its responsibility to support effective programs and its accountability for these programs. Audiences for evaluation findings on the implementation and impacts include: 1) Congress; 2) OMB; 3) NASA’s Office of Education; 4) Program staff; and 5) local stakeholders who are involved in the programs, who use findings to improve their programs. In this presentation, NASA will discuss its evaluation needs in light of these audiences, and the process of working with its evaluation contractors in developing its overall evaluation plan and in designing specific evaluation studies for particular programs or subsets of programs. NASA will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of certain approaches and will describe how the data and findings from the evaluations have been useful in, or have fallen short of, meeting the needs of the intended audiences.
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