Performance evaluation should be viewed as an applied hybrid method distinct from program evaluation (defined by Peter Rossi) which combines methods from four different institutions each speaking a different policy language (Policy, Management, Programs and Accountability) as well as mixed methods. This includes two meta-data issues: Process Management ((the method of the “business process”) includes the management using participatory evaluation of a process-based chain of events leading to desired outcome(s)) and Research Metrics (a solid grounding in the “facts” about whether there is progress towards desired goals). Performance evaluation provides new ways of defining reliability and validity and the three types of performance evaluation inferences are reviewed: 1) relationships – how are two outcomes linked?
AEA.Baer.Paper.Performance.Evaluation.as.Research.Method.October.20131.pdf
The purpose of this research was to evaluate effectiveness, efficiency and result of management and performance in national policies and strategies for child development by mixed methods evaluation. The evaluation results showed that: context-provincial officers ran the operation as general work...
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Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) conducted a survey of more than 17,000 classified and non-classified state employees
The report by Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) was a first-of-its kind effort in recent years to gather and report the perspectives of all Idaho’s K-12 educators and administrators
The report by Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) helps policymakers to navigate through complex tax policy issues by asking the right kinds of questions early in the legislative process and to more thoroughly understand how nontax factors play a part in forging appropriate tax policy alternatives
Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations recently issued an evaluation report on equity in higher education funding
OPE HiEd Report.pdf
Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations recently issued an evaluation report on reducing barriers to postsecondary education
Reducing Barriers to Postsecondary Education1.pdf