Objectives of this project were to identify and catalog all existing reports on contracted evaluation studies by the Community Action Program (CAP) evaluation branch and the various program offices; to analyze a sample of contracted evaluation studies in terms of their adequacy as research projects; to assess a sample of CAP inhouse evaluations; to examine the relationship between the on-site monitorings and other CAP evaluation activities; and to consider some of the major issues associated with the utilization of evaluation findings. (See also AC 006 892, Volume 2, a catalog of abstracts of the evaluation studies.) (Author/LY)