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II. SUMMARY OF EVALUATION PROCESS
The ECs are charged with assessing the relevance, quality, and impact of
NIOSH research programs. In conducting their evaluations, the ECs should as-
certain whether NIOSH is doing the right things (relevance) and doing them
right (quality) and whether these things are improving health and safety in the
workplace (impact).
II.A. The Evaluation Flow Chart (Figure 2)
To address its charges, the FC has developed a flow chart (Figure 2) that breaks
the NIOSH logic model into discrete, sequential program components to be char-
acterized or assessed by the ECs. The components to be assessed are as follows:
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Major program-area
challenges.
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Strategic
goals and objectives.
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Inputs
(such as budget, staff, facilities, the institute's research manage-
ment, the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors, the NORA process,
and NORA work groups).
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Activities
(efforts by NIOSH staff, contractors, and grantees, such as
hazard and health-outcome surveillance, exposure-measurement re-
search, health-effects research, intervention research, health services,
other research, and technology-transfer activities).
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Outputs
(the products of NIOSH activities, such as publications, re-
ports, conferences, databases, tools, methods, guidelines, recommen-
dations, education and training, and patents).
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Intermediate outcomes
(responses by NIOSH stakeholders to NIOSH
products, such as public or private policy change, training and educa-
tion in the form of workshop or seminar attendance, self-reported use
or repackaging of NIOSH data by intermediary stakeholders, adop-
tion of technologies developed by NIOSH, implemented guidelines,
licenses, and reduction of workplace hazardous exposures and other
risk factors).
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End outcomes
(such as reduction of work-related injuries or illnesses,
or hazardous exposures in the workplace).
Drawing on the program logic model, the flow chart, and EC members' exper-
tise, the ECs will delineate important determinants of a NIOSH research program's
agenda and the consequences of the NIOSH research activity. Determinants are
conceptualized as inputs and external factors. Examples of external factors are
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