The Role of Awards on Shaping Consumers’ Evaluation Process

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 17883
Author(s):  
Yoonjin Choi ◽  
Paul Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process

Modeling the Evaluation Process in a Public Controversy

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Emanuel Dionne ◽  
Chantale Mailhot ◽  
Ann Langley
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Orders Of Worth ◽  
Major Increase ◽  
Over Time

Public controversies have attracted increasing attention in the organization studies literature. They emerge when critical issues are not defined and understood in the same way by different stakeholders, influencing the way they evaluate the worth of other actors, objects, and situations. In this paper, we show how the “orders of worth” perspective of Boltanski and Thévenot may throw light on the evolution of an evaluation process occurring during a public controversy. In particular, we study the Quebec student conflict of 2011 and 2012 that followed a proposed major increase in higher education tuition fees. We conducted an in-depth case study based on media coverage of the actions and discourses of the major actors to examine how objects and actions associated with a controversy are successively defined, redefined, and evaluated over time through a series of tests of worth. Our article contributes to the organizational literature on public controversies by drawing attention to the role of six types of evaluative moves in situations of controversy, and by offering an abductively developed model for understanding the evaluation process as it evolves over time. We suggest that actors, through these evaluative moves, may displace the object of a test, and therefore the foci for evaluation, through actions intended to bolster their positions.

scholarly journals Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angioletta Voghera ◽  
Benedetta Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Social Components

In the light of the current changing global scenarios, green infrastructure is obtaining increasing relevance in planning policies, especially due to its ecological, environmental and social components which contribute to pursuing sustainable and resilient planning and designing of cities and territories. The issue of green infrastructure is framed within the conceptual contexts of sustainability and resilience, which are described through the analysis of their common aspects and differences with a particular focus on planning elements. In particular, the paper uses two distinct case studies of green infrastructure as representative: the green infrastructure of the Region Languedoc-Roussillon in France and the one of the Province of Turin in Italy. The analysis of two case studies focuses on the evaluation process carried on about the social-ecological system and describes the methodologies and the social-ecological indicators used to define the green infrastructure network. We related these indicators to their possible contribution to the measurement of sustainability and resilience. The analysis of this relationship led us to outline some conclusive considerations on the complex role of the design of green infrastructure with reference to sustainability and resilience.

Visitor Studies in a Political World: Challenges to Evaluation Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross J. Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Visitor Studies ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
Applied Social Science

The evaluation process model consisting of front-end, formative, and summative studies has received fairly wide acceptance among professionals in various kinds of interpretation work. Evaluation can be used throughout the development of exhibits and programs. This acceptance, however, is not as widespread as might be desirable. While some professionals in interpretive settings accept evaluation and incorporate it into routine work, others do not. Misunderstanding about the role of applied social science research is one source of resistance. Misunderstandings can focus around purposes for evaluation, the real world context of applied research, and methods of study. Other barriers include differences in decision-making philosophy, such as the value put on intuitive judgment versus use of rational data-based decisions. A number of political factors can inhibit use of evaluation, including fear of findings that are critical of interpretive work. Fortunately, there are some ways being developed for coping with resistance to evaluation.

The Role of Cut-offs in Integrated Reservoir Studies

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (04) ◽  
pp. 276-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Worthington ◽  
Luca Cosentino
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Well Test ◽  
Hydrocarbon Recovery ◽  
Reservoir Evaluation ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Net To Gross ◽  
Reservoir Simulator ◽  
Limiting Values

Summary There have been many different approaches to quantifying cutoffs, with no single method emerging as the definitive basis for delineating net pay. Yet each of these approaches yields a different reservoir model, so it is imperative that cutoffs be fit for purpose (i.e., they are compatible with the reservoir mechanism and with a systematic methodology for the evaluation of hydrocarbons in place and the estimation of ultimate hydrocarbon recovery).These different requirements are accommodated by basing the quantification of cutoffs on reservoir-specific criteria that govern the storage and flow of hydrocarbons. In so doing, particular attention is paid to the relationships between the identification of cutoffs and key elements of the contemporary systemic practice of integrated reservoir studies. The outcome is a structured approach to the use of cutoffs in the estimation of ultimate hydrocarbon recovery. The principal benefits of a properly conditioned set of petrophysical cutoffs are a more exact characterization of the reservoir with a better synergy between the static and dynamic reservoir models, so that an energy company can more fully realize the asset value. Introduction In a literal sense, cutoffs are simply limiting values. In the context of integrated reservoir studies, they become limiting values of formation parameters. Their purpose is to eliminate those rock volumes that do not contribute significantly to the reservoir evaluation product. Typically, they have been specified in terms of the physical character of a reservoir. If used properly, cutoffs allow the best possible description and characterization of a reservoir as a basis for simulation. Yet, although physical cutoffs have been used for more than 50 years, there is still no rationalized procedure for identifying and applying them. The situation is compounded by the diverse approaches to reservoir evaluation that have been taken over that period, so that even the role of cutoffs has been unclear. These matters assume an even greater poignancy in contemporary integrated reservoir studies, which are systemic rather than parallel or sequential in nature, so that all components of the evaluation process are interlinked and, therefore, the execution of anyone of these tasks has ramifications for the others (Fig. 1). A particular aspect of the systemic approach is the provision for iteration as the reservoir knowledge-base advances. For example, simulation may be used in development studies to identify the most appropriate reservoir-depletion mechanism, but, once the development plan has been formulated, the dynamic model is retuned and progressively updated as development gets under way. The principal use of cutoffs is to delineate net pay, which can be described broadly as the summation of those depth intervals through which hydrocarbons are (economically) producible. In the context of integrated reservoir studies, net pay has an important role to play both directly and through a net-to-gross pay ratio. Net pay demarcates those intervals around a well that are the focus of the reservoir study. It defines an effective thickness that is pertinent to the identification of hydrocarbon flow units, that identifies target intervals for well completions and stimulation programs, and that is needed to estimate permeability through the analysis of well-test data. The net-to-gross pay ratio is input directly to volumetric computations of hydrocarbons in place and thence to "static" estimates of ultimate hydrocarbon recovery; it is a key indicator of hydrocarbon connectivity, and it contributes to the initializing of a reservoir simulator and thence to "dynamic" estimates of ultimate hydrocarbon recovery.

scholarly journals The role of prosody and gesture in the perception of mock impoliteness

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean McKinnon ◽  
Pilar Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Complex Evaluation

AbstractWithin the impoliteness literature, an important distinction has been made between genuine and mock (or non-genuine) impoliteness (Culpeper 1996, 2011; Bernal 2008, among others). Even though mock impoliteness has generally been analyzed within an impoliteness framework, recent proposals suggest that it is an essentially different pragmatic phenomenon that requires a continuous conversational evaluation (Haugh and Bousfield 2012). The present study had the goal of assessing the offline evaluation process of target genuine vs. mock impoliteness utterances, specifically the role the situational/ discourse contexts, as well as prosodic and gestural patterns, play in their interpretation. A total of 97 participants were either asked to rate the degree of impoliteness of target genuine and mock impoliteness utterances in isolation (Experiment 1), or to rate the same utterances preceded with a set of matched and mismatched situational/discourse contexts which favored either a genuine or a mock impoliteness interpretation (Experiment 2). The results of the two experiments show that (a) evaluations of intended mock impoliteness utterances generate more uncertainty in listeners than intended genuine impolite utterances; and (b) mock impoliteness evaluations are characterized by a more active use of gestural cues. These results provide evidence that mock impoliteness triggers a more complex evaluation procedure of a phenomenon that lies on the boundary between polite and impolite behavior.

An Evaluation Of The Supplier Selection And Evaluation Process In Zimbabwean Universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongani Mushanyuri
Keyword(s):  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Environmental Criteria ◽  
Process Strategy ◽  
Strategic Consideration

Supplier  selection  and  evaluation  is  fast  becoming  animportant strategic consideration in purchasing and supply.Suppliers  play  an  influential  role  to  the  overall  success  of the  buying  organisation.  Nowadays,  supplier  selection  is firmly  positioned  as  an  alternative  source  for  competitive advantage  for  organisations  with  regards  to  offering  low cost,  high  quality  products  and  services  or  achieving reliability  to  customers.  As  organisations  become  more dependent  on  suppliers,  the  direct  and  indirect consequences of poor decision making on supplier selection will  become  more  critical.  With  the  increasingly  important role of suppliers in supply chain management, the selection process strategy has changed; other than scanning a series of pricelists only, qualitative, quantitative and environmental criteria have now been incorporated into the process.

scholarly journals Propuesta de modelo tecnológico para Flipped Classroom (T-FliC) en educación superior

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilde Basso-Aránguiz ◽  
Mario Bravo-Molina ◽  
Antonella Castro-Riquelme ◽  
César Moraga-Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Learning Assessments ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Technology Resources ◽  
Different Levels

The Technology Model, called T-FliC is proposed for Flipped Classroom. The aim is to provide IT facilities to the aforementioned pedagogical model. This proposal may be implemented at different levels of higher education. T-FliC is primarily based on the use of free technology resources, especially Google applications such as Classroom, Drive, and YouTube, because they are widely used by students and teachers. This extensive use permits to replicate this model in different educational contexts. The T-FliC model incorporates five ICT phases, ranging from the planning of teaching-learning activities to continuous learning assessments. The implementation of the T-FliC Model includes the following phases: a digital class (learning outside the classroom) with asynchronous guidance of a virtual tutor; a workshop involving dynamic activities for collaborative work (classroom learning) guided by a tutor in person; and an ongoing technological tools evaluation process (clickers, portfolio, and forum) which will generate the digital records of the student learning path. This article includes a bibliographic review of the role of ICT in the education processes and the fundamentals of the Flipped Classroom (FC) methodology. In the paper are included FC implementation experiences in higher education, followed by the presentation of the T-FliC Model as a technological proposal for this methodology. Finally, the conclusions present reflections on the proposal.

scholarly journals Utilization of insecticide treated nets against malaria among pregnant women in Southern Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 4661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odoko J. O. ◽  
Nwose E. U. ◽  
Igumbor E. O.
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Insecticide Treated Nets ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Child Morbidity ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Effective Use

Malaria remains one of the most important causes of maternal and child morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan African, despite the availability of effective intervention. Pregnant women are susceptible to symptomatic malaria due to the invasion of the placenta by Plasmodium. There are public health endeavours in promoting use of insecticide treated nets (ITNS), but there is dearth of data on effectiveness of such endeavour. This narrative review looks briefly at the historical background of use of ITNS against malaria, Government policy and program evaluation process on free ITNS for vulnerable groups, relevance of knowledge in use of insecticide treated nets among pregnant mothers, and the role of attitude and practice on effective use of ITNS in prevention of malaria. There is evidence that relatively few people in high-risk regions access and use ITNS. The low utilization of ITNs attributable to perceived cost, inability to adjust to size of the beds, and side-effects heat and ventilation when slept under it.

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