Evaluating Federal Research Programs Research and the Government Performance and Results Act (1999) / Chapter Skim
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mission agencies, research programs should! be described in strategic anc!
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Because the evaluation of applied research is directly connected to practical outcomes, whereas the evaluation of basic research is in terms of quality, relevance, and leadership, which ultimately lead to practical outcomes, there might be a tendency to bias an agency's overall research program toward applied research at the expense of basic research. This should be avoided, and a proper balance should be maintained.
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This operates on the premise that the people best qualified to judge the quality of research are experts in the field of research. This premise prevails across the research spectrum, from basic research to applied research.
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As a first step, they should become familiar with agency strategic and performance plans, which are available on the agencies' web sites. The researchers who work in agency, university, and industrial laboratories are the people who perform and best under stand the research programs funded by the federal government.
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Increased contact with and advice from the broader scientific and engineering community regarding both the quality and the leadership position of agency research programs and the relevance of the research to agency missions can benefit the GPRA process.
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