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The National Legislative Program Evaluation Society (NLPES) is one of the staff sections associated with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The purpose of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society (NLPES) is to advance the profession of legislative program evaluation and performance auditing and to provide members with relevant training, opportunities for exchanging ideas and information, and recognition for superior performance.

Good program evaluations assess program performance, measure impacts on families and communities, and document program successes. With this information, programs are able to direct limited resources to where they are most needed and most effective in their communities.
To help programs fulfill these goals, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) has developed THE PROGRAM MANAGER'S GUIDE TO EVALUATION. The Guide explains program evaluation -what it is, how to understand it, and how to do it. It answers your questions about evaluation and explains how to use evaluation to improve programs and benefit staff and families.

Usable Knowledge provides program evaluation and consulting services to organizations that need to understand how their work impacts those they serve. What distinguishes Usable Knowledge is a belief that program evaluation is only successful when it creates usable knowledge. For Usable Knowledge, this means knowledge that can be deployed to improve a program and help it grow. Creating useable knowledge requires not only an in-depth understanding of an organization and program, but also an appreciation of context within which they exist. It requires an ability to generate meaningful evaluation questions and a strategy for communicating findings that makes them accessible to those able to put recommendations into action. Usable Knowledge believes that their approach does just that.

The Africa Impact Evaluation Initiative (AIM) is a program of the World Bank’s Africa Region that supports capacity development for rigorous impact evaluation, and that provides technical assistance to produce and support country-specific impact evaluations of public programs. AIM is generating a body of knowledge to inform policy decisions and program design in policy response throughout the Africa region. It also works to bring impact evaluation into the bulk of World Bank-supported operations. The initiative initiates and supports impact evaluations across sectors, including education, health, community-driven development, post-conflict, and infrastructure.

REAP Change Consultants provides social science Research, program Evaluation, needs or academic Assessment, strategic Planning and organizational Change services to non-profits, higher education, K-12 education and selected government agencies throughout the United States. We specialize in culturally and contextually responsive evaluations using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. We favor collaborative or empowerment and utilization based approaches. Let us show you how to use maps and stories along with hard numbers for the information you need to make your organization or program better than it already is.

Program Evaluation and Regulatory Impact Assessment in Russia Blog. The Blog is maintained by the Center for Program and Policy Evaluation (CPPE).

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a Free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS, and appears very similar to it with a few exceptions.
The most important of these exceptions are, that there are no “time bombs”; your copy of PSPP will not “expire” or deliberately stop working in the future. Neither are there any artificial limits on the number of cases or variables which you can use. There are no additional packages to purchase in order to get “advanced” functions; all functionality that PSPP currently supports is in the core package.
PSPP can perform descriptive statistics, T-tests, linear regression and non-parametric tests. Its backend is designed to perform its analyses as fast as possible, regardless of the size of the input data.
You can use PSPP with its graphical interface or the more traditional syntax commands.