The purpose of this study is to explore relevant issues concerning the evaluation of the principals of the elementary schools in Kaohsiung city, and in return, to provide a basis for the municipal administrators to conduct evaluation of the principals in the future. Applying the method of ¡§literature analysis¡¨, both domestic and international studies on the evaluation of the principals were collected and analyzed. These studies include basic concepts, establishment of criteria, methods of implementation, appointment of evaluators, application of the evaluation finds, and other relevant procedures. A questionnaire was designed to look into the viewpoints and the variance of the viewpoints of the educators, administrators, parents, and experts of the elementary schools. Regarding the prominent ideas rendered by various groups of people, a second phase questionnaire under the Delphi Method was prescribed. A common understanding was thus achieved. The questionnaire was distributed to 630 elementary school related subjects, including educators, administrative staff, parents, and experts. The response rate was 82.72% (523 specimens). The analysis The major procedures of data analysis were both qualitative and quantitative. In qualitative analysis, comments in the questionnaire were individually considered. In quantitative analysis, the formal questionnaire adopted statistical processes like percentage, frequency, mean, analysis of variance, and Shefield comparison. The second phase Delphi Method focused on 15 subjects including education experts, principals, parents, teachers and administrators. Both the quantitative and qualitative analyses were applied to achieve a common understanding from different functional groups on the evaluation of the principals. Based on findings of this study, conclusions are drawn as follow: 1.Currently, Bureau of Education of Kaohsiung City has not developed the official standards for evaluating the effectiveness of the elementary school principals. 2.The variance of the viewpoints between elementary school principals and teachers varied according to different evaluation issues. 3.The variance of viewpoints regarding principal evaluation issues varied according to participants¡¦ specific backgrounds. 4.New school culture is imperative to cultivate the mutual trust relationship between the principals and the teachers. 5.Conclusions regarding specific evaluation issues are drawn as below: -The purposes of principal evaluation are not only developmental-oriented but also and administrative-oriented. -With experts and researchers¡¦ assistance, the principal evaluation criteria need to be jointly developed by principal representatives, teacher representatives, and parent representatives. The evaluation criteria must include the core as well as the self-established criteria. - Principal evaluation process is composed of four phases: planning of evaluation, implementing and collecting data, processing date and generating results, providing feedback. -The frequency of principal evaluation must be corresponded to the principal¡¦s term of office, which is once in four years. -The appointment of evaluators ¡Õmust take into account three factors: profeessionality, multiplicity, and objectivity. - The date collecting methods for principal evaluation must be diverse. - The principal evaluation reports must consist of strengths as well as areas needing improvements. Moreover, a proper appeal procedure needed to be established for the principals to request further discussion regarding the evaluation results. -The evaluation results are not only form a frame of reference for ¡§decision-making¡¨ but also lay the cornerstone for improved practices and principals¡¦ professional growth. According to the results of this study, recommendations are made as follows: 1. Recommendations for Bureau of Education, Kaohsiung city - Developing official standards for evaluating the effectiveness of elementary school principals (see Appendix 10) -Cooperating with academic institutes to provide elementary school principals with opportunities for professional enhancement -A ¡§gradual model¡¨ should be adopted in the principal evaluation. 2. Recommendations for the elementary school principals -Embracing the notion of evaluation and actively engaging in planning, implementing and developing evaluation system. -Re-adjusting their leadership behaviors, cultivate persistent willingness and abilities for self-improvement and cumulate experience in making changes. - Emphasizing school managements and developing features unique to their schools. - Establishing and maintaining portfolios with documents represent their professional accomplishments. 3.Recommendations for teaching staffs in the elementary schools -Improving teaching staffs¡¦ evaluation capabilities by establishing professional dialogue mechanisms internally and externally. -Cultivating a culture of evaluation that is beneficial to school development as a whole 4. Recommendation to further studies to be made hereafter -Integrating evaluation criteria and paying more attention to principal¡¦s current practices, leadership behaviors and professional development. -Further exploring the relationship between ¡§principal evaluation¡¨ and ¡§evaluations of school management¡¨ and the feasibility of conducting both at a time. - ¡§Meta-evaluation¡¨ needs to be conducted to understand the effects of principal evaluation and advance the quality of evaluation eventually.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

Mining operations negatively impact the environment and, as a result, South African legislation requires that, as part of an Environmental Impact Assessment, an Environmental Management Programme (EMPRs) be developed and implemented to manage all the impacts identified. The Coal Mining Sector was selected for this research because of the important role it plays within the South African economy. In this research, the quality of Environmental Management Programmes within the Coal Mining Sector of South Africa was reviewed. Based on Lee and Colley’s method for reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Reports, a review package was developed and used for the evaluation of the quality of the Environmental Management Programmes. According to the results, 62% of the Environmental Management Programmes achieved satisfactory quality grades despite omissions and inadequacies still being present. Distinct areas of weaknesses were found, such as confusion about what is required from an EMPR according to the guidelines and regulations of Department of Mineral Resources. Some EMPRs were generic documents with action plans presented that could not practically manage the impacts identified, and in some cases the Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) did not possess the technical knowledge of the mining operation to develop effective action plans to manage the impact identified. All these factors influenced the outcome of the quality evaluation of the EMPRs reviewed. / Master of Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Mining operations negatively impact the environment and, as a result, South African legislation requires that, as part of an Environmental Impact Assessment, an Environmental Management Programme (EMPRs) be developed and implemented to manage all the impacts identified. The Coal Mining Sector was selected for this research because of the important role it plays within the South African economy. In this research, the quality of Environmental Management Programmes within the Coal Mining Sector of South Africa was reviewed. Based on Lee and Colley’s method for reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Reports, a review package was developed and used for the evaluation of the quality of the Environmental Management Programmes. According to the results, 62% of the Environmental Management Programmes achieved satisfactory quality grades despite omissions and inadequacies still being present. Distinct areas of weaknesses were found, such as confusion about what is required from an EMPR according to the guidelines and regulations of Department of Mineral Resources. Some EMPRs were generic documents with action plans presented that could not practically manage the impacts identified, and in some cases the Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) did not possess the technical knowledge of the mining operation to develop effective action plans to manage the impact identified. All these factors influenced the outcome of the quality evaluation of the EMPRs reviewed. / Master of Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The study aims to explore relevant issues concerning educational personnel¡¦s and students¡¦ parents¡¦ attitudes towards the elementary school principal evaluation in Kaohsiung County and to provide a basis for municipal administrators to conduct the principal evaluation in the future. Applying the method of ¡§literature analysis¡¨, both domestic and international studies on the evaluation of the principals were collected and analyzed. These studies included the role and ability of the principal, profession characteristics and pressure, the definition, criteria and purpose of the principal evaluation, and the implementation of principal evaluation in America and Britain. Based on the literature review, a questionnaire was designed to look into the viewpoints of the educational personnel and students¡¦ parents in Kaohsiung County. The questionnaire was distributed to 858 related subjects, including administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents in 51 elementary schools which were randomly selected. The response rate was 88% (757 specimens).Based on findings of this study, conclusions are drawn as follow: 1. School administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents all approved of the criteria of the principal evaluation and they placed great value on the aspect of fund management. 2. Senior school administrative staff and teachers had more positive attitudes towards the criteria of the principal evaluation. 3. Female and male parents had significantly different viewpoints on the aspect of the teaching leadership of the evaluation criteria. Females agreed with it more than males. 4. School administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents all approved of both the internal and external evaluators and they especially thought highly of the representatives of school teachers. 5. School administrative staff and teachers of different backgrounds had significantly different views about the representative evaluators from the Teachers¡¦ Association. 6. School administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents had a tendency to approve of applying both the quantitative and qualitative analyses to report the results of the principal evaluation. 7. Concerning the principal evaluation reports, school administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents had a tendency to approve of informing the principal individually instead of in public. 8. Concerning the implementation of the evaluation results, school administrative staff, teachers and students¡¦ parents had a tendency to approve that it would provide the reference for the principal to improve his/her practice and professional growth. 9. School administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents all thought that cooperating with academic institutes and providing opportunities for principal¡¦s further study to improve his/her professional growth was the most important relevant step of the principal evaluation. 10. School administrative staff, teachers, and students¡¦ parents agreed that having interviews with school teachers was the most important means of the principal evaluation. Based on findings of this study, recommendations are made for the municipal administrators, elementary school principals and further studies.

As e-Learning has become an important trend for the training system of modern enterprises, there are many kinds of e-Learning system offered by different consulting companies with different specialties in Taiwan. To construct the best system, the enterprise must first find the real application in order to choose the optimum. The study, based on the purposes of enterprise requirement, tried to develop the methodology by using Multi-criteria Decision Making to help managers, the decision makers to evaluate an appropriate e-Learning project with a successful example of one famous ¡§steel corporation¡¨ in their evaluation by this method. From our study, the foresight in planning e-Learning system with prudent evaluation by taking the enterprise¡¦s present situation, his real needs and the evaluation model of decision making into account can avoid the prejudice of decision makers and the excessive propaganda of consulting company which might result in an inapplicable project. To the very enterprise that tries to construct his e-Learning System effectively, the methodology of Multi-criteria Decision Making provides the sequence of system selection and references for evaluation of system construction.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has been practiced in Canada since the early 1970s. However, its added value to policies plans and programs (PPPs) has yet to be fully realized. Consequently, many planners and decision makers are skeptical about the benefits of SEA, in part because of the lack of cases to indicate its added value to PPP development or downstream assessment. Much of the SEA evaluation research to date has focused on the procedural requirements and process elements of SEA rather than on its outputs and outcomes. The overall purpose of this research was to examine the efficacy of SEA and “SEA like” processes in Canada. The research examined how SEA practices have influenced PPP development, decision-making and subsequent actions in Canada. Data were collected using SEA efficacy evaluation criteria through semi-structured interviews with experts and non-experts across Canada based on their experience with and perspectives on the ‘impact’ of SEA. There has not been any study into the efficacy of SEA that is based on its added value. Most studies so far have focused on SEA inputs and process rather than outputs and broader outcomes in Canada. This research contributed not only to SEA efficacy studies, but also to improved SEA application and value added for PPP development in Canada.

This diploma thesis deals with performance dashboards and QlikView tool which serves for creation of these dashboards. The work is divided into seven parts. The first and the second part together focus on defining the theoretical foundations of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management, which create basis for performance dashboards. The focus of the third part lies in definition of term performance dashboard and clarifying its major advantages and benefits for a company. An important part is also the description of performance dashboard composition in terms of their usability, layered structure and division into various types. The forth part analyses existing criteria for evaluating of tools dedicated for creation of dashboards. Its goal is, according to the forgone analysis, to make the own list of criteria for evaluating these tools. The aim of the fifth part of this work is to describe QlikView platform. It provides a brief overview of the platform in terms of its most important components and their purpose and also provides an insight into basic architecture of this platform and compares it with traditional BI solutions. The sixth part describes basic principles of work in QlikView. Its goal is to demonstrate the basic procedure of dashboards creation in this environment on sample examples, which should also serve as a simple guide for beginner users of this tool. The last seventh part deals with evaluation of QlikView solution. Its main purpose is to review possibilities and capabilities of this tool for dashboard creation according to the predetermined criteria which are applied to the tool during its evaluation.

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The main aim of this diploma thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of legislation of evaluation criteria with its main focus on quality criteria taking account of decision practice of the Office for the Protection of Competition, case law of administrative courts and foreign and also domestic practice of awarding of the public contract. The diploma thesis is divided in five chapters, with each chapter being split in subchapters. The first chapter presents a brief overview of the public procurement legislation and intends to describe its basic aims and purposes. The second chapter focuses on legislation of quality criteria. The subject of the third chapter is the act of contracting authority prior to the launching of the procurement procedure and with it relating preliminary market consultation and award criteria. The fourth chapter deals with individual evaluation criteria including unnamed criteria and proposes the outline of the foreign practice of evaluation with the Best Value Procurement method. Furthermore, the chapter deals with the subjective award criteria in the light of the case of administrative courts and decision practice of the Office for the Protection of Competition. The last fifth chapter is devoted to the evaluation of tenders, deals with the changes to the award...