BACKGROUND The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Program underwent a 2-year evaluation planning project using a participatory process that allowed perspectives from the national community of PRC partners to be expressed and reflected in a national logic model. CONTEXT The PRC Program recognized the challenge in developing a feasible, useabl...

For many groups that fund market promotion activities, an obvious motive for conducting a program evaluation is that some type of evaluation of the effectiveness of their promotion expenditures is mandated under the 1996 Farm Bill (FAIR Act). Research and experience, however, have shown that a regular and rigorous program of evaluation is critical for efficient management of any commodity promo...

The Advisory Research and Evaluation Team (ARET) addressees program evaluation and applied research. OLLI's program evaluation function uses surveys and systematic studies to assess how well the organization is meeting its goals in providing innovative approaches and emerging methods in older adult learning, addressing member satisfaction, and supporting member community. OLLI?s research progra...

Automatic program evaluation is a way to assess source program files. These techniques are used in learning management environments, programming exams and contest systems. However, use of automated program evaluation encounters problems: some evaluations are not clear for the students and the system messages do not show reasons for lost points. The author proposes several ideas for possible imp...

The main goal of partial evaluation [3] is program specialization. Essentially, given a program and part of its input data—the so called static data—a partial evaluator returns a new, residual program which is specialized for the given data. An appropriate residual program for executing the remaining computations—those that depend on the so called dynamic data—is thus the output of the partial ...