Abstract
We have witnessed in a number of departments and agencies the establi hment of program evaluation units. We have also witnessed the provi ions in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for an explicit charter to the General Accounting Office (GAO) not only to conduct program evaluations but to take the leadership in developing methodology for public sector program evaluations. It is charged with assisting the committee of Congress, the Federal Agencies of the Government, and, in brief to become the repository of the best information available with respect to lessons learned in such evaluations. The Institute for Program Evaluation, established in the GAO in 1978, provides a visible point of leader hip not only in the GAO but for the entire Federal establishment. (See: Elmer B. Staats, The General Accounting Office Appraising Science and Technology Programs in the United States, Interdiscipl. Sci. Rev. 3, 7, 1978.)
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