In 2011, the UPNCS program in Queensland was evaluated, and in this paper we draw on data from the state-wide evaluation of the program.
In 1998, Congress required the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct the first rigorous national evaluation of the program.
Continued funding is also conditioned on the completion of a "rigorous evaluation" of the program.
Recently MDRC, a research organization that assesses social policies, published its evaluation of the program.
The museum will hire an outside consultant to conduct a formal evaluation of the program.
It has also pledged an independent evaluation of the program's effectiveness.
In 1986, Ms. Jeffrey's evaluation of the program said that it "gives no evidence of balance of objectivity.
Mathematica's "National Job Corps Study" (www.ttrc.doleta.gov /opr/FULLTEXT/jobcorps/Outcomes/), financed by the Labor Department, presents initial results of the most scientifically rigorous evaluation of the program ever done.
Nonetheless, the short-term results are similar to those found in an earlier evaluation of the program by Charles Mallar, then at Mathematica.
This study uses data collected for a mixed-method, participatory evaluation of the program in Mali.
