This chapter examines the full development process for the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research (ICCOPR) 2022-2027 Oil Pollution Research and Technology Plan (R&T Plan), from ...

Every year each agency releases a set of topics for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs – these are the areas that are most interesting ...

In today’s evidence-driven world, there is increasing demand for researchers with the skills to design, conduct, and evaluate studies that help institutions and schools improve their decision-making ...

We help service systems and organizations evaluate the effectiveness of service models and interventions in an effort to help them plan and execute service and program enhancements and policy changes.

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) generates evidence for strategic planning, decision-making, advocacy, communication, and learning. This section aims to guide the development of the M&E plan. Planning ...

PhD students are experiencing a major evaluation gap: they are being assessed on criteria that do not match their own research goals, activities, or the role they wish to play in society. To promote ...

Programs funded by federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, USAID, DoD, AHRQ and private foundations require rigorous program evaluation. Proposals require formal evaluation plans that describe methods for ...

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a comprehensive biopsychosocial framework that enables standardised description of functioning, disability, and ...

The importance of evaluating the relative impact of obesity efforts is well known, and the challenges are not new. Those challenges remain, however, far from resolved. Even modest improvement in ...