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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Impact Evaluation"”.
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State Bank Enterprise Awards: An Impact Evaluation Case Study
… that the program had substantial, yet limited impact in encouraging its participants to become future entrepreneurs. This was due to the individual background, parental influence, and differences in their own beliefs that played an essential role in supporting or hindering young Thais towards …
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Impact evaluation of cyber-physical uncertainty on power systems
This thesis evaluates the impact on power system performance of uncertainty arising from physical and cyber components of power systems. If the impact of the uncertainty arising from emerging technologies is not fully understood, it will likely lead to the deployment of unreliable and unsafe …
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An Empirical Examination And Metaevaluation Of The Impact Evaluation Process
… empirically examines the Guerra-Lopez (2007a) Impact Evaluation Process (IEP), which is a prescriptive program evaluation model. Since there is no generally accepted process for arriving at final judgments about the usefulness, appropriateness, effectiveness, reliability, and validity of …
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An impact evaluation of a retail business skills training programme
The South African retail industry is growing significantly and increasingly becoming an important contributor to the country's economic growth. The industry grew by 5.9 percent in 2011, in terms of sales, compared to 3.6 percent decline in 2009. According to figures provided by the Statistics South …
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Words Can Change Worlds: An impact evaluation of Shine Literacy
… This dissertation conducted a quasi-experimental impact evaluation by estimating the treatment effect of Shine Literacy via difference-in-differences and propensity score matching. By using the available data which included (1) Shine’s diagnostic test scores, (2) attendance data and (3) Grade 3 …
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Adoption Analysis and Impact Evaluation of Potato IPM in Ecuador
… This study analyzes adoption and the economic impacts of IPM technologies on potato production in the province of Carchi. A model is estimated in which IPM adoption is discrete and ordered and pesticides expenditures are estimated as a function of education, farming experience, wealth, plot …
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Three essays on conservation: policy design, risk management and impact evaluation
… a spatial matching technique to evaluate the impact of protection on forest degradation within protected areas using spatial econometrics for Indonesia between 2000 and 2010. My results illustrate a wide variation in forest degradation across the different island-regions of Indonesia. The …
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Medical Device Regulation 2017/745: Impact, evaluation and practices for change execution
… international markets. This thesis examines the impact of this regulation and provides an evaluation of its practices for change execution. The thesis discusses various aspects of the regulation, including identifying an impact classification level/s to express the business impact on a firm as …
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An impact evaluation of the Ujima Female Mentoring Program at Rowan University
… support services provided by Ujima, and the impact on academic achievement and social development of female members. The interviews solicited information from the current students, faculty, and staff members about various aspects of the program and recommendations for improvement.</p> <p>Data …
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Mitigating road work disruptions on bus service : a framework for passenger impact evaluation
… strategies are put in place to limit the impact of these disruptions, such as by increasing scheduled headways or fleet size, systematically curtailing trips, or diverting the route to avoid traffic around the construction site. These mitigation strategies can themselves impact passengers. …
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Group IV element-based luminescent nanoparticles: synthesis, environmental impact evaluation and bio-imaging applications
Optically emissive nanoparticles have begun to find applications in fields ranging from domestic flat-screen displays to clinical biomedical treatment, spurring the development of luminescent nanomaterials. Due to their tunable optical and electrical properties via the quantum confinement effect, …
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An Effective End-User Development Approach through Domain-Specific Mashups for Research Impact Evaluation
… there is little consensus today on how research evaluation should be performed, and it is commonly acknowledged that the quantitative metrics available today are largely unsatisfactory. The process is very often highly subjective, and there are no universally accepted criteria. A number of …
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Impact evaluation of in-space additive manufacturing and recycling technologies for on-orbit servicing
Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:42:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 SEARS-THESIS-2018.pdf: 502754 bytes, checksum: 9fc27d97554ffc268d11cbb6ddbe49d3 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 0cc39aa6e04642f01c5b652b842fc32a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation (IDIE), with a specific focus on agricultural interventions. Drawing on Ernest House's (1980) assertion that evaluations should be not only true but also just, and Donald Campbell's (1986) reconceptualization of internal validity …
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An Impact Evaluation of a Masters TEFL Program Operating at a Language Institute in Thailand
… programs and acted as an impetus to program evaluation. This evaluation examined the impact of the MATEFL program on the graduates from the first three years of the program. The research design included a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods: document reviews, surveys, and …
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An impact evaluation of the Dr. Harley E. Flack Male Mentoring Program at Rowan University
<p>The purpose of this study was to conduct an impact evaluation of the Dr. Harley E. Flack Male Mentoring Program on selected students at Rowan University. The study involved 94 subjects, divided into two groups. Group one consisted of 90 students enrolled in the Dr. Harley E. Flack Male Mentoring …
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Impact evaluation of Funda Wande in-service teacher coaching intervention: Findings from the first year
… techniques in practice. The primary aim of the evaluation is to assess whether the Funda Wande intervention is effective in changing teacher's instructional behaviour and improving early reading outcomes. More specifically, the programme's is evaluated with reference to its self-stated goal: …
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Power, data and knowledge in development sector impact evaluation activities: critically engaging with the impact iceberg
… intensive development, our ideas about impacts may appear empirical and objective, based on data and expertise, and often digitally immaterial. However, these ideas involve power and politics which shape data desires and data cells, knowledge products, packaging and pitching, governing …
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An Impact Evaluation of the Chrysalis Academy Programme focusing on the contribution of its Outdoor Component
This evaluation is an impact evaluation of the Chrysalis Academy (CA) Programme. The CA programme is geared to help youth in the Western Cape develop the skills and resilience needed to transcend the prevailing poverty, inequality, unemployment and crime in their communities. Chrysalis offers a …
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Investment professionals' readiness for effective impact evaluation using sustainable innovation: A case study of a large South African asset manager
… South African asset manager, to employ effective impact evaluation methods, with a focus on the integration of blockchain technology. In it, I delve into the current state of impact investing in South Africa, highlighting the challenges and opportunities encountered by fund managers in evaluating …
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