Atlanta Workshop on the Evaluation of Industrial Modernization

1997 Workshop: Implications of Evaluation Results for Program Improvement and Policy Development
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Workshop on
Manufacturing Modernization: Implications of Evaluation Results for Program Improvement and Policy Development

Atlanta, November 13-14, 1997

The workshop on Manufacturing Modernization: Implications of Evaluation Results for Program Improvement and Policy Development aims to highlight advances in evaluation studies of industrial modernization programs and policies and consider the insights from these studies for program improvement and policy development. The workshop also seeks to identify program and evaluation best practices and review how evaluation initiatives in this field can best address changing future needs and priorities.

The workshop will bring together an invited group of evaluators and policy practitioners working in the field of industrial modernization. The workshop will provide an opportunity to collate current and ongoing evaluation studies and to allow the opportunity for peer review and exchange about methods, findings, and implications. Workshop participants will be requested to prepare written papers or shorter commentaries; subsequently these papers will be edited and published in a set of proceedings. These proceedings will be disseminated to individuals and centers in the manufacturing extension system, to the policy community, and posted to the World Wide Web. Opportunities to publish selected papers in refereed journals or an edited collection will be explored.

The workshop is organized through the Georgia Tech Policy Project on Industrial Modernization at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute. Sponsorship for the workshop is provided by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Workshop themes

The workshop is planned around the broad theme of assessing the implications of evaluation studies for program improvement and policy development. After a review of current issues in evaluation practice for industrial modernization, there will be sessions on:

• Evaluation studies and results as vehicles for continuous improvement
• Results and implications of program evaluation studies of industrial modernization
• Improving organizational arrangements to promote industrial modernization
• Using evaluation results in policy and program development
• Using evaluative information for center management decisions
• Feedback of evaluation results into program design and policy

For further information, please contact Philip Shapira or Jan Youtie (select here for contact information).

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