Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 into law—the first major government performance reform in 17 years. The law requires ...

We work closely with PIs on grant proposals to design evaluation plans, write the evaluation section and develop the evaluation budget. We implement evaluation plans, review evaluation data with PI’s ...

“We’ve done evaluations before, but the results weren’t that useful or interesting.” “I barely have time to get to all the things on my to-do list, let alone to spend extra time reflecting and ...

This note aims to provide guidance on the key principles and considerations underlying the design of Fund-supported programs. The note expands on the previous operational guidance notes on ...

Responding to the dramatic increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents, in 2002 the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National ...

The Northwestern University Program Evaluation Core team members consist of faculty, PhD and Masters level staff with expertise in evaluations focusing on higher education and training. Our team ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

The Division of Evaluation, Assessment and Education Research within the School of Medicine provides expertise, advising and administrative support related to program evaluation, performance ...