Thesis (Ph.D. (Curriculum Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015 / The purpose of the study was to explain how teacher evaluation is implemented in sampled schools of two districts; Mogalakwena and Waterberg of the Limpopo Province. The interpretive paradigm was followed to investigate how teachers at the sampled schools implement teacher evaluation, Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS). Within the interpretive paradigm, qualitative approach was followed to gain an in-depth understanding of social realities as well as comprehensive portrait of range of attempts, interactions, situations and perceptions. Data collection was done using interviews, observations and document analysis. Twenty-four participants participated in the study (eight principals; eight School Developmental Teams (SDTs) and eight teachers). Principals provided information on how they support, motivate teachers to implement the evaluation system and manage the implementation process. SDTSs provided information on how they plan, supervise, coordinate, and monitor the implementation process. The eight teachers provided information on how they classify areas that needed development. The study has highlighted how teacher evaluation, IQMS should be implemented and the methods that may be used to measure teacher performance. The findings revealed that schools were not implementing teacher evaluation, IQMS as stipulated in the IQMS manual (2003), and that this might result in teachers experiencing difficulties in implementing the evaluation system and obstruct the attainment of quality teaching

<p> The book of Judges fairly bristles with 'heroes' of ambivalent moral character, and acts of dubious propriety, such as Gideon's use of signs to determine YHWH's will, Jael's murder of Sisera, and the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter. The terse narrative and the reticent narrator frequently leave the ethical character of these actions in doubt. My goal in this dissertation is to identify evidence available in the text, both literary and linguistic, in order to evaluate the characters and actions of various participants in the narratives of the "major" judges. On the basis of this evidence I will not only draw evaluative conclusions about the characters of the judges and the Israelite people themselves, but also about their varying perceptions of YHWH that these characters hold.</p> <p> In order to facilitate these goals, I will take an interdisciplinary approach. I will employ the concept of narrative perspective from literary criticism and consider the evaluative stance of the implied author, the narrator, and the various characters in the narrative. I will also draw heavily on the Appraisal Theory of J. R. Martin and P.R.R. White, which in turn derives from Systemic Functional Linguistics. By merging these two approaches I will develop a new model which I call Narrative Appraisal which will then be applied to the Hebrew text of Judges. The Narrative Appraisal Model can clarify individual evaluative instances as well as patterns of linguistic features at the level of discourse that elucidate the implied author's stance.</p> <p> The lexicogrammatical and ideational evidence produced by this methodology reveals contrasts and trajectories within and across the narratives which, when analyzed, give insight into the characters of the Israelites, the character of YHWH, and the relationship between the Israelite people and their God. It also helps to identify the unifying ideological stance of the book. In simplified terms, this ideology affirms the holiness, justice, mercy, and faithfulness of YHWH, the need for the Israelites to maintain absolute loyalty and obedience to him, the legitimacy of discipline, the engrained tendency of humanity to defy their God and follow their own ways, the ultimate failure of human leadership in the form of judges, and the essential need for YHWH to intervene with a new model of leadership.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Evaluative stances are common in narrative and realized at all levels of linguistic structure. In film reviews, evaluation has been recognized as one of the most important stages alongside description (Taboada, 2011). Following Martin &amp; White’s Appraisal Theory of Evaluation, the present comparative study focuses on two sub-systems of Appraisal, namely Appreciation and Engagement. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: a) to compare the way in which film critics use evaluative, axiological adjectives to evaluate two different film types and b) to study how professional film critics use of two types of engagement devices, namely epistemic and opinion devices, to position their own claims towards other potential viewpoints. The study is also influenced by two previous claims: Holbrook’s claim that, in contrast to consumers who seem to prefer American-made, commercial films, expert critics usually appreciate complex cinematography and culturally diverse films; and Carretero’s claim that in professional film reviews opinion devices are an almost absent feature, since these tend to be replaced by epistemic devices. To further explore these claims, this comparative, corpus- based study focuses on the frequency of evaluation adjectives and engagement devices used by expert film critics for the positive or negative evaluation of two different films: the 2020 box office hit “Bad Boys for Life” and the 2018 art film “Cold War”. The study used a mixed-method design, first subjecting the realizations of Appreciation and Engagement to a quantitative analysis and following this with a qualitative discussion of results. The results indicate: a) that in the case of both films positive evaluations clearly surpass negative evaluations; however, individual examples seem to express a mildly deprecatory attitude towards commercial cinematography and b) that although the number of epistemic devices in the reviews clearly surpasses that of opinion devices, the frequencies of opinion devices is greater than that observed by Carretero.

This master's thesis is focused on conducting a performance evaluation of a particular company using the EFQM Excellence Model. The theoretical section of this thesis introduces the primary theoretical basis for company performance measurement with a focus on the EFQM Model of Excellence. The analytical section contains an evaluation of the selected company‘s current situation using the Excellence Model's methodology to identify weaknesses. The output from the analysis is then used in the subsequent section of the thesis, where these weaknesses are transformed into suggestions for improving the company's performance so it can proceed further on its path to excellence.

This Master‘s thesis deals with a performance evaluation of a selected business. The first part of the thesis is focused on basic terms and theoretical introduction related to the tools for measuring and evaluating company performance. The next part contains an introduction of the company, a current state assessment and a practical application of theoretical findings. The final part of the thesis includes suggestions for performance and current situation improvement.

近年來，社會經濟進步，對「不動產估價」之需求日益殷切，例如投資房地產、利用房地產來進行借貸行為等各項需要，在在皆得依靠不動產估價的技術，因此提升了社會上對不動產估價的重視。而在今日科技如此蓬勃發展的資訊時代，若能將不動產估價的技術與電腦的數位技術相互結合，藉由電腦的強大計算能力與快速的回應能力，相信必能提升不動產估價的技術及準確度。 　所以本研究致力於將不動產估價與電腦科技相結合，期望能提升不動產估價的準確度，除了利用其強大的計算能力之外，本研究更進一步地將不動產估價動作與地理資訊系統ＧＩＳ（Geographic Information System）相結合，利用ＧＩＳ強大的地理資料處理能力，希望能將不動產估價的技術提昇至更高的境界。 　本研究的研究過程為先對不動產估價之理論與方法進行研究，並尋找出不動產估價時的程序及其所需要考量的事項，在整理融會之後，再進一步地結合ＧＩＳ，以建構出一個以ＧＩＳ為基礎的不動產估價系統。且每當一估價個案完成，系統便自動將此筆估價個案之資料與結果回饋（輸入）給系統，成為一筆新增之買賣實例，如此一來，買賣實例資料庫將會愈來愈大，愈來愈完整，也將會使得系統的估價能力愈準確、可信度愈高。 因為在台灣不動產估價已經逐漸受到社會各界，例如銀行、租賃公司和房屋仲介公司等的重視，所以本研究企圖整理出各種常用估價模式及其所需的資料，並結合地理資訊系統（Geographic Information System，GIS）的技術，建構出一個以ＧＩＳ為基礎的泛用型不動產估價資訊系統之原型，期能藉此提高不動產估價行為的效率與精確度，並希望對ＧＩＳ的應用領域提供一個新的窗口，進而擴大ＧＩＳ的長遠發展。 / Recently, the need for appraisal of real estate is more and more important for people. When we invest the money in the real estate or use real estate to borrow money, we must depend on the technique for appraisal of real estate. Now, we are in the information world. If we can take advantage of the ability of the computer to appraise the real estate, it must be able to promote the technique and accuracy of appraisal in real estate. 　So in this thesis, it was applied to combine the appraisal in real estate and the ability of the computer and it hoped that it could increase the accuracy of appraisal. Besides the computing ability, this thesis wanted to combine the technique GIS (Geographic Information System) and the appraisal in the real estate. It wanted to take advantage of the processing ability in geographic data in GIS to higher the technique in appraising real restate. 　In this thesis, we attempt to arrange some general appraisal models and data the models need and to use the technique of GIS to design a prototype appraisal system. We hope that the system will be able to higher the efficiency and accuracy of appraisal in real estate. And we hope we will create a new way to take advantage of the ability of GIS.

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att göra en jämförande studie mellan faktorerna som enligt en teoretisk ram påverkar en miljöinvestering och faktorerna som ingår i ett företags bedömnings-modell. Respondentbolaget begärde i ett tidigt skede att få vara anonymt och benämns därför som Företaget. Det är en multinationell koncern med verksamhet i många skilda branscher, men med fokus på norden och produkter som kan kopplas till lantbruk. Den teoretiska referensramen har sin utgångspunkt i begreppen värde och investering samt hur deras koppling till miljö och miljöinvesteringar för att identifiera de faktorer som påverkar en miljöinvestering. Faktorerna som ingår i den teoretiska referensramen och som jämförs mot respondentbolagets faktorer är:  Investeringens värdetillförsel  Investeringens miljöpåverkan  Hur investeringen påverkar produktionsförutsättningarna  Krav från samhället  Kundkrav Kopplingen däremellan bedöms enligt en femgradig skala. Informationen från Företaget inhäm-tades genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer med representanter från Företaget. Slutsatsen för detta arbete är att Företaget har identifierat samma faktorer som den teoretiska referensramen. De använder dock mätetal som inte fullt ut reflekterar faktorerna. Den största avvikelsen är bedömningen av en investerings värdetillförsel, då Företaget fullt ut införlivar det producerade värdet samt det faktum att en miljöinvestering skall ses som irreversibel. Enkelhet premieras hos Företaget och det är för att prioritera modellens användbarhet, som Företaget väl-jer att acceptera brister i bedömningsmodellen. För att förbättra bedömningsmodellen bör Företaget därför införliva nya mätetal som till större del reflekterar faktorerna som påverkar en miljöinvestering / The purpose of this master thesis is to present a comparison between the factors that affects an environmental investment. This is done through applying a theoretical framework on the factors affecting a company’s existing appraisal model for environmental investments. The company that was a part of this thesis asked at an initial stage for confidentiality, therefore it is called the Company in this thesis. The Company that contributes with the appraisal model is a multination-al group with operations in many different industries, but with a focus on the Nordic countries and products that may be linked to the agricultural sector. The theoretical framework has its base in the concepts of value and investments and their connection to the environment and the envi-ronmental investment. The identified factors in the theoretical framework are:  The investment’s addition to the value creation to the company  The investment’s environmental impact  How the investment affects the production  Demands from society  Customer demands From these, the factors affecting a company’s existing appraisal model were compared and their connection to theoretical framework was judged according to a 5-grade scale. Information from the Company was acquired through semi-structured interviews with representatives from the Company. The largest deviation is how the company considers an investment’s contribution to the produced value. Because of this imperfection does the company's model not fully incorporate the produced value and that an environmental investment is irreversible. The overall conclusion is that the Company has identified the same factors as the theoretical framework. The Company has though chosen to use their existing methods and performance indicators that don’t fully incorporate the factors in the theoretical framework. The largest devia-tions are how the company considers an investment’s contribution to the produced value and that it should be considered as irreversible. The Company must therefore in order to enhance their appraisal model develop new performance measures for the factors.

藝術欣賞二階段模型所發現的第二階段美感提升現象，若根據流暢性理論加以解釋，為單純曝光造成流暢性提升而導致的結果，未涉及認知處理歷程的影響，然而情緒評估理論以及Leder等人（2004）的美感經驗與評價歷程神經模型，都強調美感經驗為認知與情感的交互作用。針對上述兩類不同的理論觀點，本研究的目的在於探討認知涉入在美感歷程中的重要性，同時亦嘗試瞭解美感經驗中認知與情緒的關係。本研究讓參與者欣賞不同時代、流派與國家的具象藝術畫作，共分成三個實驗。實驗一收集美感相關情緒詞彙，發展美感情緒量表；實驗二與實驗三延伸Locher等人（2007）之實驗設計，分別收集美感偏好與美感情緒的資料，包含顯性與隱性指標，欲從美感提升現象中檢驗認知涉入對兩種美感歷程產物的影響力。實驗二關心美感偏好隨時間的變化，結果顯示認知涉入有助於偏好的提升，而隱性偏好亦有相似的趨勢；實驗三則發現美感情緒並沒有隨呈現時間增加而提升，而認知涉入的影響力也較不明顯，臉部EMG測量則未能反映出隱性美感情緒。本研究也發現，國畫較西畫更顯著地出現美感偏好或情緒的提升現象且較受認知涉入影響，此外，主觀偏好與不偏好的西畫在美感偏好與正向情緒類別之結果中，皆有類似適應的效果，其中主觀偏好畫作隨時間增長而正向情緒減少、負向情緒增加。綜合而言，本研究結果支持認知涉入為美感偏好提升之要素，但是無法確認認知與情緒兩者之間的互動關係，此外，藝術欣賞的第二階段不只有美感提升的現象，亦有美感下降的現象。 / The increase of aesthetic preference over viewing time was found in the study of the two-stage model of art appreciation. This phenomenon could be interpreted by mere exposure effect on improvement of fluency, not involving the influence from the cognitive processes. However, some theories (Silvia, 2011; Leder et al., 2004) emphasized the interaction between cognition and emotion in aesthetic experience. Based on these two kinds of theoretical perspective, the purpose of this study is to explore the role of cognitive involvement in aesthetic processes, and to understand the relationship between cognition and emotion in aesthetic experience. There are three experiments in this study, using the figurative art paintings from different era, genre and countries as the material. In Experiment 1, the emotional adjectives were collected to develop the scale of aesthetic emotion. In Experiment 2 and 3, the effects of cognitive involvement on aesthetic preference and emotion were tested, respectively. We extended the experiment design from Locher et al. (2007) to manipulate the degree of cognitive involvement additionally, with both the explicit and implicit indexes measured. Overall, the results showed that cognitive involvement helped the increase of preference, but not of emotion, because there was no increase of emotion founded. In addition, the effect of cognitive involvement in Chinese paintings was more obvious than that in West paintings. We also found that there could be adaptation effect in aesthetic process. In conclusion, the importance of cognitive involvement in preference increase was supported. But we cannot confirm the interaction between cognition and emotion. In addition, not only the increase of aesthetic preference and emotion, but also the decrease of them could be found in the second stage of art appreciation.