Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education 
Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation [EPUB ebook] 
Proceedings of a Workshop

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation. The workshop was organized to consider ways to bolster the integrity and protect the objectivity of the evaluation function in federal agenciesa process that is essential for evidence-based policy making. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.