Evidence and Evaluation
The Administration is committed to a broad-based set of activities to better integrate evidence and rigorous evaluation in budget, management, operational, and policy decisions, including through: (1) making better use of data already collected by government agencies; (2) promoting the use of high-quality, low-cost evaluations and rapid, iterative experimentation in addition to larger evaluations examining long-term outcomes; (3) adopting more evidence-based structures for grant programs; and (4) building agency evaluation evidence-building capacity and developing tools to better communicate what works.
Highlights
- Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
- Building and Using Evidence to Improve Results – FY 2017 Budget Fact Sheet
- Improving Outcomes through Pay for Success – FY 2017 Budget Fact Sheet
- Building the Capacity to Produce and Use Evidence – FY 2017 Budget Analytical Perspectives Chapter 7
- A Government of the Future – FY 2017 Budget Chapter 5
- Social Indicators – FY 2017 Budget Analytical Perspectives Chapter 5 (Statistical Overview of the Nation)
- Strengthening Federal Statistics – FY 2017 Budget Analytical Perspectives Chapter 16
Past Budget Materials
- Building Evidence with Administrative Data – FY 2016 Budget Analytical Perspectives Chapter 7
- Building and Using Evidence to Improve Results – FY 2016 Budget Fact Sheet
- Improving Outcomes through Pay for Success – FY 2016 Budget Fact Sheet
- A Government of the Future – FY 2016 Budget
- Program Evaluation and Data Analytics – FY 2015 Budget Analytical Perspectives Chapter 7
Policy Guidance
- Guidance for Providing and Using Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes – OMB M-14-06 (February 2014)
- Next Steps in the Evidence and Innovation Agenda – OMB M-13-17 (July 2013)
- Use of Evidence and Evaluation in the 2014 Budget – OMB M-12-14 (May 2012)
- Evaluating Programs for Efficacy and Cost-Efficiency – OMB M-10-32 (July 2010)
- Increased Emphasis on Program Evaluations-OMB M-10-01 (October 2009)
Resources and Other Information
- OMB Director Donovan on the Future of Pay for Success
- Making a Difference by Funding What Works – OMB Blog (April 17, 2015)
- Learning More from the Data the Federal Government Already Collects – OMB Blog (April 21, 2015)
- Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3)
- Using Evaluation as a Tool to Improve Programs – 2014 Economic Report of the President
- Office of Evaluation Sciences
- Exploring a Cross-Agency Platform for Judging Evidence: Resources for Federal Agencies
- Federal Evaluators