Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/691

 PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978

92 STAT. 1971

"EVALUATION

"SEC. 313. (a) The Secretary shall provide for the continuing 29 USC 881. evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted pursuant to this Act, including their costeffectiveness in achieving the purposes of this Act, their impact on communities and participants, their implication for related programs, the extent to which they meet the needs of persons by age, sex, race, and national origin, and the adequacy of the mechanism for the delivery of services. In conducting evaluations the Secretary shall compare the effectiveness of programs conducted by prime sponsors of the same class and of different classes, and shall compare the effectiveness of programs conducted by prime sponsors with similar programs carried out by the Secretary under the Act. The Secretary shall also arrange for obtaining the opinions of participants about the strengths and weaknesses of the programs. j> "(b) The Secretary shall evaluate the effectiveness of programs authorized under this Act and part C of title IV of the Social Security 42 USC 630. Act with respect to the statutory goals and objectives, including increases in employment and earnings for participants, duration in training and employment situations, information on the post-enrollment labor market experience of program participants for at least a year following their termination from such programs, and comparable information on other employees or trainees of participating employers. "(c) In order to reduce the paperwork burden and costs on prime sponsors, project applicants and program agents, in carrying out evaluations of the cost-effectiveness of identical or similar programs of prime sponsors, the impact of such programs on communities and agents, the implication for related programs, and the adequacy of the mechanism for the delivery of services, the Secretary shall to the maximum extent possible, consistent with the purposes of this Act, use statistical sampling techniques. "(d) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Congress an Evaluation plan, annual evaluation plan, setting forth major themes for the areas of submittal to research, statistics, evaluation, experimentation, and demonstrations Congress. to be undertaken in the succeeding fiscal year, the program purposes and policy alternatives to which each such area is related and the current and proposed funding and staffing levels. The Secretary shall < H. > ',-[. specify in the portions of the plan relating to experimentation and demonstrations the intended outcome of proposed major innovations and the amount of time required to test the innovations or to achieve adoption of the demonstration. The information required by this subsection may be included in the annual report of the Secretary under section 127(a). Ante, p. 1945. "(e) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Congress an Evaluation annual evaluation report for employment and training programs. Such report, submittal report may be included in the annual report of the Secretary under sec- *" Congress, tion 127(a). The Secretary shall include in such report— "(1) a summary of the achievements, failures, and problems of the various programs authorized in this Act in meeting the objec• tive of this Act; "(2) a summary of major findings from research, evaluation, and experiments conducted in the previous fiscal year; "(3) recommendations for program modifications based upon* ^ analysis of such findings; and "(4) such other recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the Secretary deems appropriate.

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