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                        A FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE ON
                        EVALUATING THE EVALUA'IORS

                                   By

                            Keith E. Marvin
                            Associate Director

                      U.S. General Accounting Office
                    Institute for Program Evaluation

                             October 2, 1981

                                   At

                       The Joint Annual Meeting of
           Evaluation Network and Evaluation Research Society


INTRODUCTION

     I am pleased to appear with this panel to discuss  the benefits and

feasibility of evaluating the evaluators.  Dick  Johnson  has combined the right

mix   both of renresentation and experience  in putting it together.  We represent

industry,  universities and government and we have  experience both in structuring

the necessary data systems and in evaluation standards which  would be a primary

basis for the criteria.

     My  first reaction to Dick's invitation was to agree out of some sense of

obligation  but with some doubt that the idea of evaluating the evaluators was

timely,  particularly from the Federal perspective which I was asked to address.

However,  I found that conmittees of both the House of Representatives and

Senate are actively  considering similar bills which would require agencies to

evaluate  their evaluators. Both bills would  provide statutory guidelines con-

cerning  the award of contracts for the procurement of consulting services,

management and professional services,  special studies and analyses and clarify

the authority for appointment and compensation of  experts and consultant@.

Clearly, much of the evaluation work done  for the Federal Government would be




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