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GAO GUIDES AND METHODS PAPERS

• Case Study Evaluations, GAO/PEMD-10.1.9, November 1990. 
  
  
• Designing Evaluations, GAO/PEMD-10.1.4, March 1991.   
  
  
• How to Get Action on Audit Recommendations, OP-9.2.1, July 1, 1991.
  
  
• Performance Measurement and Evaluation: Definitions and Relationships, GAO-05-739SP, May 2005.
  
  
• Prospective Evaluation Methods: The Prospective Evaluation Synthesis, GAO/PEMD-10.1.10, November 1990.
  
  
• Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction, GAO/PEMD-10.1.11, June 1992.
   
• Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information, GAO-01-126SP, April 2001. (172 pages)
  
  
• The Evaluation Synthesis, rev. ed., GAO/PEMD-10.1.2, March 1992.
  
  
• The Results Act: An Evaluator’s Guide to Assessing Agency Annual Performance Plans, version 1, GAO/GGD-10.1.20, April 1998.
  
• Using Structured Interviewing Techniques, GAO/PEMD-10.1.5, July 1991.

GAO REPORTS

• Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT's Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends, GAO-09-56, Oct. 3, 2008.
  
  Estimating the Undocumented Population: A “Grouped Answers” Approach to Surveying Foreign-Born Respondents, GAO-06-775, Sept. 29, 2006.
   
  Program Evaluation: OMB's PART Reviews Increased Agencies' Attention to Improving Evidence of Program Results, GAO-06-67, Oct. 28, 2005.
  
  
• Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, but More Can Be Done to Engage Congress, GAO-06-28, Oct. 28, 2005.
  
  
• VA Patient Safety Program: A Cultural Perspective at Four Medical Facilities, GAO-05-83, Dec. 15, 2004.
  
  Performance Budgeting: Observations on the Use of OMB’s Program Assessment Rating Tool for the Fiscal Year 2004 Budget, GAO-04-174, Jan. 30, 2004.
  
  
• Program Evaluation: An Evaluation Culture and Collaborative Partnerships Help Build Agency Capacity, GAO-03-454, May 2, 2003.
  
  
• Federal Programs: Ethnographic Studies Can Inform Agencies’ Actions, GAO-03-455, Mar. 31, 2003.
  
  
• Program Evaluation: Strategies for Assessing How Information Dissemination Contributes to Agency Goals, GAO-02-923, Sept. 30, 2002.
   
  Program Evaluation: Studies Helped Agencies Measure or Explain Program Performance, GAO/GGD-00-204, Sept. 29, 2000. 
  
  
• Managing for Results: Views on Ensuring the Usefulness of Agency Performance Information to Congress, GAO/GGD-00-35, Jan. 26, 2000.
  
  
• Performance Plans: Selected Approaches for Verification and Validation of Agency Performance Information, GAO/GGD-99-139, July 30, 1999. 
  
  
• Managing for Results: Measuring Program Results That Are Under Limited Federal Control, GAO/GGD-99-16, Dec. 11, 1998.  
  
  
• Grant Programs: Design Features Shape Flexibility, Accountability, and Performance Information, GAO/GGD-98-137, June 22, 1998.
  
  
• Program Evaluation: Agencies Challenged by New Demand for Information on Program Results, GAO/GGD-98-53, Apr. 24, 1998. The results of GAO's survey on roles and resources available for federal program evaluation and the characteristics of evaluation studies conducted.
  
  
• Managing for Results: Analytic Challenges in Measuring Performance, GAO/HEHS/GGD-97-138, May 30, 1997.
  
  
• Block Grants: Issues in Designing Accountability Provisions, GAO/AIMD-95-226, Sept. 1995.
  
  
• Program Evaluation: Improving the Flow of Information to the Congress, GAO/PEMD-95-1, Jan. 30, 1995.