Federal government departments and agencies are required to conduct a neutral assessment of their evaluation function once every five years under the Treasury Board Secretariat’s Policy on Evaluation (2009). This article describes the National Research Council’s experience conducting the first neutral assessment of its evaluation function. Based on learning from this first assessment, best practices that NRC intends on replicating, as well as lessons learned for future assessments, are discussed. This article may be of interest to both federal and non-federal organizations seeking to conduct a neutral assessment in an effort to improve their evaluation services and products.
Rubrics are commonly used in the education sector to assess performance, products, or processes of student learning. Rubrics are gaining importance in or-ganizational performance and program evaluation practice. According to several evaluation practitioners, rubrics can elucidate how excellence and value are defined and applied to evaluation questions or indicators in a given context. This practice note summarizes a pilot project of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) using evaluative rubrics for characterizing relevance and generating conclusions in an evaluation.En pédagogie, on se sert souvent de rubriques pour évaluer la perfor-mance, les résultats ou la démarche d’apprentissage de l’étudiant. De plus en plus, les rubriques sont utilisées en analyse de la performance organisationnelle et dans la pratique évaluative. Selon certains évaluateurs, les rubriques peuvent contribuer à éclairer la façon dont l’excellence et le rendement sont définies et intégrées aux ques-tions d’évaluation ou aux indicateurs dans un contexte donné. Cette note de pratique résume un projet pilote du Conseil national de recherches du Canada (CNRC) dans lequel on a utilisé des rubriques pour caractériser la pertinence d’un programme et générer les conclusions de l’évaluation.
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