Directorate Staff
Evaluation Potpourri
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Evaluation Definitions
100
This staff member plays the traditional Chinese game “GO” at the international level.
Who is Sarah?
100
This monthly meeting reviews privacy submissions in policy analysis, research and evaluation before they are presented at the Privacy and Information Security Committee (PISC).
What is the Databank Review Working Group (DRWG)?
100
This is a depiction of the causal relationships between activities, input, outputs and the outcomes of a given policy, program or initiative.
What is a logic model?
100
In 2015-16, the Evaluation Directorate organized this number of Departmental Evaluation Committee (DEC) Meetings?
What is 7?
100
This refers to the extent to which a program demonstrates relevance and performance.
What is Value for Money?
200
This staff member has a graduate degree in History, with an emphasis on historical geography.
Who is John?
200
The privacy policy team reviews documents that fall under these three categories, which together are abbreviated as “PARE.”
What is Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation?
200
This is an attribute required of the evaluation function and evaluators that is characterized by impartiality in behavior and process.
What is neutral or neutrality?
200
The Evaluation Directorate completed this many evaluation reports in fiscal year 2015-16.
What is 7?
200
This refers to the extent to which resources are used such that a greater level of output is produced with the same level of input or, a lower level of input is used to produce the same level of output.
What is Efficiency?
300
This staff member has a journalism background.
Who is Hillary?
300
ESDC oversees these 3 business lines.
What are: Employment and Social Development, the Labour Program and Service Canada?
300
According to Section 6.2.5 of the 2009 Policy on Evaluation, these must be evaluated every 5 years.
What are grants and contributions?
300
This database is the central repository of information on Canadian businesses jointly held by Statistics Canada and CRA.
What is the Business Register?
300
This principle refers to the extent to which a program is achieving expected outcomes.
What is Effectiveness?
400
This staff member has qualified for the World Championship of a traditional German card game.
Who is Thomas?
400
This individual has the authority to issue, amend and rescind the Directive on the Evaluation Function and the Standard on Evaluation for the Government of Canada.
Who is the President of the Treasury Board?
400
This survey was undertaken every year until 2014 by a survey firm on behalf of ESDC to support the evaluation of EI Part I.
What is the Canada Out-of-Employment (COEP) Survey?
400
The Evaluation Directorate is currently composed of this number of FTEs.
What is 60?
400
This refers to minimizing the use of resources; and is achieved when the cost of resources used approximates the minimum amount of resources needed to achieve expected outcomes.
What is Economy?
500
This staff member travelled to El Salvador in 2013 to volunteer to build houses.
Who is Edouard?
500
This individual is responsible for monitoring compliance with the Policy on Evaluation and ensuring its effective implementation within a department.
Who is the deputy head?
500
Examples of this include case studies, observations, and file reviews.
What are instruments to collect qualitative data?
500
The Evaluation Directorate plans to complete this many evaluation reports between fiscal years 2016-17 and 2020-21.
What is 60?
500
This is the portion of total budgetary spending that excludes public debt charges and major transfers to persons and to other levels of government. It includes operating and capital spending and grants and contributions (as specified in the Public Accounts).
What is Direct Program Spending?
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