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This is a study of the inflation and inaccuracy of U.S. Army evaluations and how they affect Army promotions. Army evaluations have become inflated and have become an ineffective measure of performance and potential for continued ...
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This is a study of the inflation and inaccuracy of U.S. Army evaluations and how they affect Army promotions. Army evaluations have become inflated and have become an ineffective measure of performance and potential for continued service. The author conducted a review of Army evaluations and how they relate to the changes the Army has experienced over the last decade in response to the War on Terrorism. These changes have created tremendous growth to counter the need for more 'boots on the ground' for longer durations. In response to this growth, and the growing demands on the individual leader, Army evaluations have become over-inflated in response to increasing demands for promotions. This inflation of evaluations has made them ineffective measures for potential for continued promotion and increased responsibility in the Army. Based on these findings, current Army evaluations leave too much room for inflated comments that do not inform centralized promotion boards with reliable and accurate information in determining the potential for increased responsibility. Current evaluations should be revised to remove the abundance of inflated reports.
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The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the constructability and performance of Prismo Imprint synthetic overlays (manufacturer later changed to Ennis Paint, Inc.). Imprint is being evaluated as an alternative to brick...
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The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the constructability and performance of Prismo Imprint synthetic overlays (manufacturer later changed to Ennis Paint, Inc.). Imprint is being evaluated as an alternative to brick pavers. This product can be installed in a few hours compared to days with brick pavers. Imprint is a hot applied wearing course comprising of a synthetic asphalt based compound, incorporating pigment, graded rubber granules and granite aggregate, reinforced with metal and glass fibers. The top layer of asphalt within the crosswalk area is milled. The molten imprint material is placed on the pavement and spread with a heated iron. Fine sand is spread over the recently laid asphalt, and then a metal mold is used to press the brick design. The Imprint can be installed quickly and easily. The products performance depends on the condition of the underlying pavement.
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The purpose of this component of the study is to present analytic information on the EDA Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) program. What is the context of EDA RLF loans, how do the loan funds perform, how many jobs do they produce, and ho...
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The purpose of this component of the study is to present analytic information on the EDA Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) program. What is the context of EDA RLF loans, how do the loan funds perform, how many jobs do they produce, and how much do those jobs costs. In addition, what is the default/write-off rate associated with loans under this program, and who benefits from the program. This report evaluates the EDA RLF program. It is the most comprehensive report completed to date because it involves all active RLF loans as of October 1998. The loan pool at that time consisted of 450 EDA RLF grantees who had processed close to 12,000 loans, or an average of approximately 25 loans per grantee. The study involved hand-coding information on 11,600 loans and on 422 grantees.
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This report describes guidelines developed for the supervisor/coordinator to evaluate nursing practice by peers who are engaged in similar functions. Technical, human, and conceptual skills were evaluated by the nurses for themsel...
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This report describes guidelines developed for the supervisor/coordinator to evaluate nursing practice by peers who are engaged in similar functions. Technical, human, and conceptual skills were evaluated by the nurses for themselves and for their peers. Significant correlation was found between the self-evaluation and the peer evaluation in the area of technical skills, but no significant correlation in areas of human and conceptual skills. A bibliography and sample review forms are included.
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Participants in LIFESKILLS are younger (under 18) and are either involved in CSE or considered at high risk for sexual exploitation. The LIFESKILLS program offers case management, support groups, and referral services. Length of s...
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Participants in LIFESKILLS are younger (under 18) and are either involved in CSE or considered at high risk for sexual exploitation. The LIFESKILLS program offers case management, support groups, and referral services. Length of stay for LIFESKILLS girls ranges from 4 to 14 months. GRACE participants are older (adults) and have been arrested for prostitution. Most GRACE program clients are court-ordered to participate for a minimum of 25 hours of group services. This study used a four-phase participatory evaluation design that employed both quantitative and qualitative components. The two qualitative components (phases 1 and 4) used interviews with staff and program participants to assist in operationalizing variables for the evaluation, identifying process and outcome measures, and developing program logic models. The quantitative evaluation followed a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent group design to assess a set of outcomes (phase 2). The principal data sources included baseline and follow-up surveys and official arrest records. The process evaluation (phase 3) integrated both quantitative and qualitative methods to assess whether the program was well designed and implemented as intended and involved an examination of services, management, staffing, information systems, and case files. The key findings: 1. The SAGE Project succeeded in reducing contact with the criminal justice system of both the LIFESKILLS and GRACE groups. 2. Girls and young women typically track along one of four risk-related trajectories, on the basis of whether they are (a) from risk saturated communities, (b) from troubled suburban families, (c) from immigrant families, or (d) becoming involved proactively, without (at first) many of the overwhelming risk factors present for the other trajectories. 3. While a LIFESKILLS curriculum with a good theoretical foundation exists, fidelity to a model is lacking, and it has not been sufficiently formalized, operationalized, and documented.
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Designing Evaluations is one of a series of papers whose purpose is to provide guides to various aspects of audit and evaluation methodology and indicate where more detailed information is available. It is based on Government Acco...
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Designing Evaluations is one of a series of papers whose purpose is to provide guides to various aspects of audit and evaluation methodology and indicate where more detailed information is available. It is based on Government Accountability Office (GAO) studies and policy documents and program evaluation literature. To ensure the guide's competence and usefulness, drafts were reviewed by selected GAO, federal and state agency evaluators, and evaluation authors and practitioners from professional consulting firms. This paper updates a 1991 version issued by GAO's prior Program Evaluation and Methodology Division. It supersedes that earlier version and incorporates changes in federal program evaluation and performance measurement since GPRA was implemented.
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This paper describes the testing methodology used in ANSI C efficiency testing,211 along with observations regarding the resulting measurements. Conclusions are 211 provided regarding which algorithms have the most consistent perf...
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This paper describes the testing methodology used in ANSI C efficiency testing,211 along with observations regarding the resulting measurements. Conclusions are 211 provided regarding which algorithms have the most consistent performance across 211 different platforms. This paper also includes an appendix containing tables of 211 timing and cycle counting values obtained from testing the algorithms.
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The purpose of the project was to monitor and evaluate the Effectiveness of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) within the Department of Health and Human Services. The study included mail questionnaire surveys of members of the Se...
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The purpose of the project was to monitor and evaluate the Effectiveness of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) within the Department of Health and Human Services. The study included mail questionnaire surveys of members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) for three years, case studies of selected agencies to determine the impact of the CSRA on agency management and performance, in-depth interviews with selected SES members and representatives of top management, and analysis of data provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration. The study found that the mechanisms outlined in the Act (such as the new performance management system and bonus awards) were in place and operating. It also identified examples of creative uses of these new personnel tools. The study further concluded, however, that additional changes would depend on the commitment of top management to continued innovation and use of the system.
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An important step in the analysis of large-scale systems is the development of economical and meaningful measures of system performance. In the literature on analysis of nuclear safeguard systems, many performance measures have be...
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An important step in the analysis of large-scale systems is the development of economical and meaningful measures of system performance. In the literature on analysis of nuclear safeguard systems, many performance measures have been advanced, but their interrelationships and their relevance to overall system objectives have not received attention commensurate with the effort spent in developing detailed safeguard models. The work reported here is an attempt to improve the development and evaluation of performance measures for nuclear safeguard systems. This work falls into three main areas. First, we develop a new framework which provides an initial basis for defining and structuring performance measures. To demonstrate that this framework allows a clear understanding of the purposes of nuclear safeguard systems, we employ it to state various safeguard questions clearly and concisely. The framework reflects the rough subsystem structure of safeguard systems - the detection and response subsystems - and formally accommodates various safeguard models. We especially emphasize two of these models which are under development at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the structured assessment approach (SAA) and the systems vulnerability assessment method (SVAM). Second, we examine some performance measures presently used in the nuclear safeguards area and in reliability theory in general. Some of these we accept and modify to obtain system performance measures that are an additive combination of subsystem performance measures, a very convenient form indeed. Others we reject as impractical and meaningless. Finally, we determine some common features between the SAA and SVAM models by formally comparing these models in our framework. (ERA citation 05:004085)
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