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External Evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Its Grantees: Letter Report (2011)

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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A Committee on the External Evaluation of NIDRR and Its Grantees." National Research Council. 2011. External Evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Its Grantees: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13203.
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Attachment A

Committee on the External Evaluation of NIDRR and Its Grantees

DAVID H. WEGMAN (Chair), School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

THOMAS J. ARMSTRONG, Center for Ergonomics, University of Michigan

BURT S. BARNOW, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

LEIGHTON CHAN, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

PETER C. ESSELMAN, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle

WALTER FRONTERA, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

GLENN T. FUJIURA, Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago

BRUCE M. GANS, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey

IAN GRAHAM, Knowledge Translation and Public Outreach, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

LISA I. IEZZONI, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

ALAN M. JETTE, School of Public Health, Boston University

THUBI KOLOBE, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

PAMELA LOPREST, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

KATHRYN E. NEWCOMER, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

PATRICIA M. OWENS, Government Accountability Office, Minisink Hills, PA

ROBERT G. RADWIN, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

JEANNE C. RIVARD, Senior Program Officer and Co-Study Director (from September 2010)

MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL, Co-Study Director (from September 2010)

MOLLY STORY, Study Director (through September 2010)

GARY FISCHER, Senior Program Assistant

JATRYCE JACKSON, Senior Program Assistant (from September 2010)

MATTHEW D. MCDONOUGH, Research Associate

TINA WINTERS, Associate Program Officer (from April 2011)

Suggested Citation:"Attachment A Committee on the External Evaluation of NIDRR and Its Grantees." National Research Council. 2011. External Evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Its Grantees: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13203.
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The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research funds applied research and development to improve the lives and functioning of persons with disabilities. At the request of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education, the Board on Human-Systems Integration of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to conduct an evaluation of aspects of NIDRR's program. Specifically, the committee was charged to assess the NIDRR priority-setting, peer review, and grant management processes, and to develop an overall framework and evaluation design for the review of grantee outputs for a sample of 30 grantees.

External Evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Its Grantees Letter Report discusses the procedures the committee used in its output evaluation, its assessment of those procedures, and recommendations for future evaluations. This report works to improve future evaluation practices and ensure that evaluation results optimally inform NIDRR's efforts to maximize the impact of its research grants. Additionally, it offers conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions on defining evaluation objectives, strengthening the output assessment, and using NIDRR's Annual Performance Reports system to capture data for future evaluations.

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