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Evaluation Improvement Strategies at the U.S. Office of Education1

The Department of Education’s central evaluation office, the Planning and Evaluation Service (now in the Office of Planning, Budget and Evaluation) is descended from three organizations that existed in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). In 1978, the peak year of evaluation funding, these organizations had a total of 77 staff members. The organizations were the Office of Education’s Evaluation and Dissemination staff, its Policy Studies staff, and the education staff of HEW’s assistant secretary for planning and evaluation. About three-fourths of the professionals in these offices designed and monitored large contractor evaluations of federal education programs costing from $100,000 to several million dollars. The remaining professionals were policy analysts, some of whom monitored or conducted small studies. The average work load per person was about $676,000 in contracts, in constant 1988 dollars. Today, in the Department of Education’s Planning and Evaluation Service, the line between evaluation and policy analysis has been blurred. The staff