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Abstract #303057

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Activity Number:	239
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303057
Title:	Templates for Evaluating Survey Programs
Author(s):	Brenda G. Cox*+ and Nancy Kirkendall
Companies:	Battelle and Energy Information Administration
Address:	2101 Wilson Blvd, Suite 800, Arlington, VA, 22201, United States
Keywords:	PART ; performance assessment ; survey evaluation
Abstract:	The Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) was instituted to boost the quality of federal programs by encouraging rigorous performance assessment for government programs. Program strengths and weaknesses are identified in these performance assessments, resulting in recommendations for improvement and recognition of desirable design elements already in place. For programs that involve a family of related surveys, the individual surveys that comprise the survey program need to be evaluated and the effectiveness of their integration to create the survey program. his paper presents results of an investigation for the Energy Information Administration that developed templates for performing an external evaluation of a family of related surveys and its component surveys. The intention was to produce a Program Evaluation Template and a Survey Evaluation Template that could be used as guides for performing expert assessments of survey programs and their component surveys. The templates were proof-of-concept tested on the Petroleum Marketing Survey Program---a relatively stable, well-documented family of surveys.

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