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Bhagavad-Gita: History’s First Manual on Results-Based Management
Get PDFBackground: This is one in a series of articles in which the author attempts to relate Eastern philosophy to contemporary programme planning and evaluation.
Purpose: The author compares and contrasts the Bhagavad-gita with contemporary guidance on Results-based Management.
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Data Collection and Analysis: The author used the four pillars identified as being the base of RBM from a UNDP technical note as the framework for the analysis.
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Conclusions: In RBM strategic goals are defined that initiate a causal process in which results are specified to achieve the goals, and these, in-turn, determine programmes, processes and resources.
One of the central ideas of the Bhagavad-gita is the performance of activities without attachment or any expectation of results. This is a concept to which the tome refers as renunciation. Furthermore, the Gita states that renunciation enables us to enter into a conscious alignment with the higher order
Methods for Collecting Data Based Upon an Eastern Paradigm of Evaluation
Get PDFBackground: This is one in a series of articles in which the authors attempt to relate Eastern philosophy to contemporary program planning and evaluation.
Purpose: The authors examine data collection methods through the lens of Eastern Philosophy.
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Research Design: Pre-experimental design: one-shot case study.
Data Collection and Analysis: The author attempts to "see" a photograph sealed in an opaque envelope.
Findings: The author was able to draw a picture that somewhat resembled the photograph. This was one of the author's better attempts at CRV. To be able for him to refine this technique to the point that it might have application for evaluation will no doubt take a long time -- if ever. However, it is an intriguing notion
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
Evaluating evaluations: does the Swiss practice live up to the ‘program evaluation standards’?
Get PDFIn a meta-evaluation of fifteen Swiss evaluation studies, The Program Evaluation Standards have been applied as assessment criteria. The studies cover different policy fields (environmental, industrial, energy, social policy, and foreign policy). The analysis is based on written materials and qualitative interviews with both stakeholders and evaluators. The article assesses the relationship between The Program Evaluation Standards and current Swiss evaluation practice. It also highlights the factors that often prevent evaluators from undertaking thorough and provocative examinations in a small, consensus-oriented democracy without a long tradition in evaluation research and practice. Finally, the paper reflects on whether The Program Evaluation Standards are appropriate for a different sociocultural, political and policy context
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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