Federal Program Evaluation from the OMB Perspective

Abstract

First, the evaluator should evaluate only the programs that are evaluable. He should agree to help with the definitional problems of potentially evaluable programs. But he should not hesitate to name the nature of the problem. The evaluator should tell policy makers and program managers whether their programs are or are not evaluable, and why. Second, the evaluator should bring the i t the evaluator will have completed eassess ent of the evaluab lity of the is agency. It is almost useless to stions of use and methodology for at clearly do not m et the criteria. The i al step is both a po sible source of t e evaluator and a somewhat risky i any agencies.