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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"evaluation approaches"”.
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed - New evaluation approaches and insights
… directions: First, it provides the first impact evaluation of the new start-up subsidy in Germany. The results indicate that participation in the new start-up subsidy has significant positive and persistent effects on both reintegration into the labor market as well as the income profiles of …
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Improving chronic disease monitoring in resource limited settings: simulation and economic evaluation approaches
… particularly benefit from such scrutiny and evaluation is monitoring. The aim of this thesis is to generate evidence on the suitability of current guidelines, and potentially identify alternative strategies for monitoring chronic diseases, with a specific emphasis on Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus …
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Advancing Biosecurity in the Age of AI: Integrating Novel Detection, Suppression, and Evaluation Approaches
Civilization confronts a growing challenge: advancing transformative biological science while safeguarding against catastrophic misuse, a tension amplified by the rapid convergence between biology and artificial intelligence. The COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed our vulnerabilities to …
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An Empirical, Evaluative Comparison of the Goal-Based and Goal-Free Approaches to Educational Program Evaluation
Theoretically, the use of different evaluation approaches yields different information. This information often leads to different conclusions, but it is not necessarily inaccurate. It is different information, sometimes relevant, sometimes irrelevant, depending on the audience. A comparative …
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An approach to programme evaluation in human services organisations : a case study
This study examines the issue of programme evaluation and places it within the context of the Western Cape region of Operation Hunger. Data for this study was collected over a six month period of participant observation at Operation Hunger, during which time a programme evaluation model was …
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Balancing privacy needs with location sharing in mobile computing
… privacy control model. Two different evaluation approaches are employed in investigating the suitability of the model. These include; a field-based study of the techniques employed in the model and a laboratory-based usability study of the Mobile Client application upon which the DPC …
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Major system acquisition reform in the United States Coast Guard : a case for the application of Lean Enterprise principles
… (NDRS). From the application of Lean Enterprise evaluation approaches to the Rescue 21 project, it was evident that:
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Generic benchmarking for application specific wireless sensor networks multi criteria performance
… profound problem in true protocols contribution evaluation and comparison remains challenging. Moreover, the stochastic and statistical nature of WSNs makes realistic performance analysis fairly complex. In multi criteria QoS context, this problem is further magnified by big design space with not …
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Photovoice With Persons Affected by Tuberculosis Intervening In the Bio-Political Spheres of Communicability: A Study of the Circulation of Power
… equal participation. I conclude with offering an evaluation model for Photovoice practice driven by critical theory as an alternative to traditional systems-based evaluation approaches.</p>
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An evaluation methodology to ensure the success of decision support tools
Motivated by the need for an evaluation technique to help decision makers ensure the success of their computer-based decision support tools, this research explores the evaluation of decision aids from a broad organizational and managerial perspective. A review of current research identifies the …
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Valorising Hidden Culture: Power, Identity and Affect in Leicester Food Practices
… to the limitations of hegemonic models and approaches, ‘hidden culture’ is developed and presented as an alternative conceptual and analytical framework for cultural studies, and deployed in the thesis through a case study of food practices and everyday materiality. When conceived in this …
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Principals' perceptions of teacher evaluation practices in an urban school district
<p>Teacher evaluation has the ability to greatly support increased student achievement. However, existing literature on the topic finds evaluations are not meeting the intended purpose. Since principals are responsible for the implementation of the process at their school site, their perceptions of …
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Valorization of wastewater-derived biomass via integrated aqueous systems
… potentials of wastewater as well as quantitative evaluation approaches of such systems; and (b) wastewater-derived polyhydroxybutyrate-accumulating bacteria (WW-PHB) systems, where pilot-scale production of the biopolymer PHB has been demonstrated with no impact to effluent discharge quality, yet …
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A methodology for the measurement and evaluation of complex system designs
… manufacturing. Early system design evaluation is essential to assess a design’s potential for satisfying operational and budgetary requirements, since a significant percentage of the system life cycle cost is committed by design decisions made early in the system life cycle. However, …
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… 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 as …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conformance-Based Plans: Attributing Built Heritage Outcomes to Plan Implementation Under New Zealand's Resource Management Act
… effectiveness of plan provisions. This lack of evaluation is not unique to New Zealand or merely symptomatic of heritage planning. Instead, it is a shortcoming in planning theory and practice internationally; a well recognised impediment being that planning lacks a suitable evaluation approach. …
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A case study of a school district new principal mentoring program
In an effort to learn more about evaluation theory and practice, particularly the tensions and benefits of integrating two different evaluation approaches, this study was a critical reflection of the issues and tensions related to blending program theory evaluation and constructivist evaluation …
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Towards Defining “Made in Africa Evaluation”
… and the spread of capitalism across Africa, most evaluation in Africa is rooted in dominant Western paradigms and approaches. This creates a two-pronged problem. First, imported Western evaluation methods and approaches may in fact lack validity, and thus be leading to wrong conclusions and bad …
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Towards A Formative Evaluation Tool
Evaluation is an integral part of instructional design. Formative evaluation, specifically, is a phase identified in many instructional design models and is recognized as an important step for program improvement and acceptance. Although evaluation has many models and approaches, very few deal …
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Measuring organisational readiness prior to IT/IS investment
… to IT/IS failure.The majority of current IT/IS evaluation approaches are mainly a product oriented andpost-investment measures which don't address organisational readiness prior to IT/ISinvestment. This PhD study has developed a holistic model to measure the capabilityorganisations to …
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