Performance Measurement

Poister, Theodore H.

doi:10.1002/9781119171386.ch5

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“…By one author's definition, such displacement occurs "when people will perform toward the measures but sacrifice the real program or organizational goals in the process." 157 For example, the author cites reports of "collateral damage" from No Child Left Behind legislation, which heavily emphasized test scores as a performance metric for schools:…”

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Performance Management and Assessment of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Lessons from Academic Literature and Practitioner Guidance

2022

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Many U.S. government agencies rely on federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) for independent expertise in systems engineering and integration, study and analysis, and research and development. In this report, we discuss insights from academic literature and practitioner guidance on the effective oversight, management, and performance assessment of FFRDCs. This research was conducted as part of a larger RAND Project AIR FORCE project to help the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Command (SMC) strengthen processes for assessing the performance of its systems engineering and integration FFRDCs. However, the insights from literature discussed in this report should be of interest to other federal agencies seeking to improve their processes for assessing FFRDCs.

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confidence: 99%

Performance Management and Assessment of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Lessons from Academic Literature and Practitioner Guidance

2022

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“…Within the field of ECE, child protection training has been shown to effectively increase knowledge about mandated reporting laws and practice (i.e., the typical training program outcome of interest; Carter et al, 2006) for students in preservice education (Kenny, 2007;McKee & Dillenburger, 2012) and educators in practice who attend professional development training (Mathews et al, 2017). From a methodological standpoint, therefore, evaluators and relevant stakeholders should have confidence that these outcome measures of knowledge improvement show a high degree of reliability (i.e., consistency of data and data collection) and validity (i.e., the degree to which instruments accurately represent the construct they are intended to measure; Poister, 2015). However, given that child protection training content areas are typically governed by state laws, variability in legal definitions presents a problem in evaluating program effectiveness when core definitions underlying the construct of knowledge vary by jurisdiction.…”

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Integrating Validity Evidence to Revise a Child Abuse Knowledge Test for Early Childhood Education Providers: A Mixed Methods Approach

Panlilio

Famularo²,

Masters³

et al. 2021

American Journal of Evaluation

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Knowledge tests used to evaluate child protection training program effectiveness for early childhood education providers may suffer from threats to construct validity given the contextual variability inherent within state-specific regulations around mandated reporting requirements. Unfortunately, guidance on instrument revision that accounts for such state-specific mandated reporting requirements is lacking across research on evaluation practices. This study, therefore, explored how collection and integration of validity evidence using a mixed methods framework can guide the instrument revision process to arrive at a more valid program outcome measure.

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“…This is accomplished through utilizing available assets to promote profitability, asset value, and growth [1]. The available resources must be used effectively and efficiently by management in a transparent, accountable as defined in the legal and regulatory framework [2].…”

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Effects of Leadership on Financial Performance of Deposit Taking Saccos in Meru County

Kiriinya,

Nyariki

2023

AJEBA

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The emergence of Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies has been hailed as one of highly captivating financial sector in the world as a result of offering an alternative to financial intermediary and economic growth. However, over and above all the poor financial performance of these SACCOs has been subject of concern and it’s hinged on inadequate corporate governance. As a result, the purpose of this research is to establish the influence of leadership on financial performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Meru County. In this study, Stakeholders theory has been chosen to guide the study. The population of interest in this study will comprise of 12 DT- SACCOs with a target population of 120 participants drawn from the 12 DT- SACCOs in Meru County, the study population will comprise of CEOs, Executive Board Members, and operational Managers of the SACCOs. The study will employ census and purposively sample all the120 to participate in the study. Structured questionnaires with a five-point non-comparative Likert scale will be used to collect primary data. Data collected will be both qualitative and quantitative and will be analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used to analyze the data. The findings were presented using tables, charts, percentages, tabulations, means and other measures of central tendency. Tables were used to summarize responses for further analysis and facilitate comparison. This generated quantitative reports through tabulations, percentages, and measures of central tendency. The findings of this study established a strong positive correlation between board composition and financial performance of SACCOs. Academic qualification and occupation had the highest influence on SACCO’s financial performance with r (33) = 0.851, p < 0.05 and r (33) = 0.845, p< 0.005 respectively. It was however noted that there was a weak positive correlation between gender and SACCO’s financial performance, r (33) = 0.432, p < 0.05. It was also established that there is a strong negative correlation between size of board and SACCO’s financial performance, r (33) = - 0.784, p < 0.05. This means that the fewer the board members the better the financial performance of SACCOs. Besides, a strong positive correlation between board leadership and SACCO’s financial performance was determined, r (33) = 0.812, p < 0.05. A strong positive correlation between transparency and accountability and SACCO’s financial performance, r (33) = 0.884, p < 0.05 existed. The coefficient of determination R square was 0.542 which implied that 54.2% of variation in the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables (predictors). It also means the goodness of fit test is fulfilled. This also means that all the factors (board composition, board size, leadership, transparency and disclosure) significantly predict financial performance of SACCOs, with transparency and accountability having the highest prediction (ß = 2.208).

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Performance Measurement

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Performance Management and Assessment of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Lessons from Academic Literature and Practitioner Guidance

Performance Management and Assessment of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Lessons from Academic Literature and Practitioner Guidance

Integrating Validity Evidence to Revise a Child Abuse Knowledge Test for Early Childhood Education Providers: A Mixed Methods Approach

Effects of Leadership on Financial Performance of Deposit Taking Saccos in Meru County

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