Efforts are currently underway in the US federal government to improve and strengthen evaluation practice and increase the use of evaluation results to inform policies and programs. However, these efforts remain unrealized, due partly to the lack of a comprehensive framework identifying the main types of evaluation policy an organization should consider. To generate a set of relevant types of evaluation policy for the US context, this study surveyed 600 members of the American Evaluation Association in 2009. Participants were asked to brainstorm examples of evaluation policy and then sort and rate them. Results were analyzed using a concept mapping technique. The end product is a "3Rs" evaluation policy inventory instrument, including step-by-step instructions for its use in organizations and a discussion of its applications in research on evaluation (policy).#Instruments #QualitativeMethods #EvaluationPolicy #2012Conference