Office of Performance Evaluations

Work Guided by Professional Standards

• Government Auditing Standards (issued by the US Comptroller General)
• Guiding Principles for Evaluators (issued by the American Evaluation Association)
• Program Evaluation Standards (issued by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation)

Recent Work Products

Office Recognitions

• Rakesh Mohan was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). His 3-year term starts in January 2008. AEA is an international program evaluation association of more than 5,000 members. In the past, Rakesh served as chair of AEA's Publications Committee and the topical interest group on State and Local Government Evaluation.

• 2007 Impact Award, National Legislative Program Evaluation Society, in recognition for the report State Substance Abuse Treatment Efforts that had documented public policy impact.

• 2007 Notable Documents Award, National Conference of State Legislatures, Legislative Research Librarians, in recognition of excellence for the report Use of Average Daily Attendance in Public Education Funding that explores "topics of contemporary interest to legislators and staff by presenting substantive material in an outstanding format."

• Rakesh Mohan was reappointed by the US Comptroller General to the Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards for a four-year term (2007-10). Government auditing standards provide the framework for helping to ensure that auditors conduct their work with competency, integrity, objectivity, and independence.

• 2006 Excellence in Evaluation Award, National Conference of State Legislatures, National Legislative Program Evaluation Society, in recognition of "best advancing the field of legislative program evaluation” from 2002 through 2005.

• Prior awards and recognitions

Professional Memberships

• American Evaluation Association (AEA)
• Association of Government Accountants (AGA)
• Canadian Evaluation Society
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
• National Legislative Program Evaluation Society (NLPES)