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How "The Government Performance and Results Act" Borrowed from the Experience of OECD Countries
Get PDFTo what extent did the United States draw upon the experience of OECD countries in developing a framework for "managing for results"? A great deal the author argues, tracing how The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) borrowed from the experience of Australia and OECD countries, and how this experience influenced both the legislative and executive branches in formulation and passage of GPRA that included elements of results-oriented strategic planning and resource assessment
Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation: A Future Perspective
No full textThis conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book indicates that evaluators so far have been reluctant or ignorant to recognize and utilize Big Data. Big Data is being used both as a mean to capture difficult-to-map features of society and as a cheaper or more accurate substitute for more conventional data sources, such as census data and labor market data. To achieve meaningful coproduction is, however, not a challenge that can be met by evaluators alone. It is also a challenge for commissioners of evaluations, since it may require new management competence practices. Also with a focus on prediction, the United Nations Global Pulse suggests the use of Big Data to protect communities from multiple slow-onset crises. Evaluators have a lot to learn on the technical level, including how to work with Big Data sources, highly complex analytical procedures, and algorithm development
Using Big Data to Study Digital Piracy and the Copyright Alert System 1
No full textThe Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a monitoring and notification system through which Internet Service Providers monitor whether or not one of their subscribers engage in digital piracy. There are clear indications as to whether or not the implementation of the CAS resulted in changes in online search behavior related to digital piracy. The jurisdiction that comes closest to the United States in terms of Internet access and access to digital content and sociodemographic variables is Canada. Within the context of e-interventions, Big Data as a source provides evaluators with an additional tool that can be used to analyze changes in online behavior. For evaluators, the lesson to be learned is that relevant and interesting insights can be obtained by using Big Data as a source even though it cannot be used as the sole method to make statements about the effectiveness or impact of policy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Framing of Public Evaluation Data and the Legislation on Openness and Transparency in Danish Schools
No full textThe Framing of Public Evaluation Data and the Legislation on Openness and Transparency in Danish Schools
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