Measuring Success

Author : Jack Buckley,Lynn Letukas,Ben Wildavsky
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421424965

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"Once touted as the single best way to measure students from diverse backgrounds, schools, and experiences, standardized college admissions tests are now criticized for being hopelessly biased in favor of traditionally privileged groups. Out of this has emerged the test-optional movement that seeks to allow students to apply to schools without sitting through the rigors of the SAT. This book takes a step back and applies rigorous empirical measurements to these rival claims. Drawing upon the expertise of higher education researchers, admissions officers, enrollment managers, and policy professionals, this edited volume is among the first to investigate the research and policy implications of test-optional practices. It was conceived in response to the editors' frustration with the fragmented and incomplete state of the literature around the contemporary debate on college admissions testing. Many students, teachers, parents, policymakers--frankly, nearly anyone immediately outside the testing industry and college admissions--have little understanding of how admissions tests are used. This lack of transparency has often fueled beliefs that college assessments are biased, misused, or overused. Decades of research on various aspects of testing, such as the predictive validity of assessments, makes a compelling case for their value. But all-too-frequently researchers and admissions officers talk past one another instead of engaging substantively. This collection intends to remedy the situation by bringing these disparate voices together. This book is designed for provosts, enrollment managers, and college admissions officers seeking to strike the proper balance between uniformity and fairness"--

Author : Jack Buckley,Lynn Letukas,Ben Wildavsky
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421424972

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000045957192

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Measuring Success by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform Pdf

Author : Randy Southern
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0781455359

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Measuring Success As Jesus Did by Randy Southern Pdf

and • Emphasizes the value of heavenly treasures over material goods and • Cautions students against "gaining the world but losing their soul" and • Presents the biblical concept that "the last shall be first" Finally a small group discipleship study that meets your teens where they are. With options for seven different types of groups, discipleship tips, reproducible handouts, and more, you now have the freedom to customize your small group lessons. Whether your students are new Christians, advanced learners, full of adrenaline, or anything in between, this series is your tool to help them grow to be more like Jesus. Each book includes four sessions plus an experiential learning session that will take youth to the next level--the commitment of the heart and the knowledge of the mind become the actions of the hands.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Review of Specific Programs in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309675284

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Measuring Success in Substance Use Grant Programs by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Review of Specific Programs in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act Pdf

The opioid epidemic, now several decades in the making, continues to cause pain and suffering for millions of Americans. Each year, thousands of individuals die from overdose, and thousands more grieve from these losses. Opioid use disorder (OUD) can lead to a complete interruption of day-to-day activities, including caring for one's family, maintaining a job or career, or keeping track of basic necessities, such as health care and finances. This report, the first in a series of three, examines four of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'s grant programs that help alleviate suffering due to opioids and improve treatment quality and access. It offers recommendations about the existing reporting tools used by these programs and and proposes additional metrics and outcomes that should be considered.

Author : Greg Brisendine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795242078

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are indispensable for measuring business, but if they don't serve a larger mission, it's easy to lose sight of why you're measuring in the first place. Tracking the dynamic relationship between mission and measurement, this book is logical, approachable, and filled with relatable anecdotes. Greg Brisendine has provided strategic and measurement consulting to Fortune 100 companies and to small startups. In all cases, he starts by finding out what's important to those leaders. From there, he maps a path to their KPIs. That mission-driven approach is what he brings to this book. Measuring Success is an indispensable tool for anyone with the ambition to affect change - from new managers to seasoned leaders.

Author : Mark Graban
Publisher : Constancy, Inc.
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measures of Success by Mark Graban Pdf

A 260-page, full-color book that will help you: STOP REACTING TO NOISE. START RESPONDING TO SIGNALS. Measures of Success shows business leaders how. A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR HOW TO MANAGE YOUR METRICS Organizations depend on metrics for their business. Question is, are they helping people do the right things? Or, encouraging them to overreact to every uptick, downturn, and change? In other words, reacting to noise. Noise is present in every metric. But, it's our reaction to noise that causes waste and stress. Too often, people don't recognize this. Like feeling stuck on a rollercoaster you no longer enjoy. We do and explain things that don't help us improve. At the cost of doing things that do. No need to be jittery about every change in a metric. Not by a long shot. Measures of Success shows a better way to chart and manage your metrics, in any organization or setting. For your business processes and activities, you need to know what's working, what's not, and what to change. And why. Then, you can determine what to stop doing, what to start doing, what to keep doing. So you can... Jump off the metrics rollercoaster, by responding to signals. Systematically. Sustainably. Learn how to identify meaningful signals in a metric. To respond just right. Or perhaps, not at all. You'll learn how with methods easy to understand, making it obvious what activities to do next. Loads of vivid stories and clear examples from healthcare, software companies, and more. With compelling case studies from the news and personal lives, too. "What gets measured gets managed." We've all heard that. But did you ever learn how to manage a metric? This ain't about gaming the system or fudging the numbers. This is about delivering real value, understood by everyone, and proven with data. Learn a better way to manage your measures. WHO IS MEASURES OF SUCCESS FOR? EXECUTIVES AND LEADERS...in healthcare, manufacturing, and services. Who know what to measure, and are now ready to learn how to manage those measurements. And... WILLING TO... Challenge and change the way things are done today Motivate workers to think and do them better tomorrow Coach people, versus telling them what to do Be responsible for results, not hold others accountable Encourage people to collaborate, not compete Help people sleep better at night because they're improving their work during the day TO BE CLEAR Measures of Success is not for leaders who'd rather give orders. Then, blame others when things go south. That whole hit the target or else thing... won't create real change, nor real value. But that ain't you, right? AFTER READING MEASURES OF SUCCESS ...you'll be able to answer three critical questions for your business. Are we achieving our target? And, how often? Occasionally? Consistently? Are we improving? And, can we predict our future performance? How do we improve? And, when do we react? When do we ignore? When do we improve? ...AND HOW CAN WE PROVE WE'RE IMPROVING? How would you feel if you could answer these questions for your business? Measures of Success shows you how. PROCESS BEHAVIOR CHARTS This book teaches you a proven method for filtering out noise, so we can identify signals. This means we waste less time chasing our tail and more time responding to signals that really matter, heading off small problems before they become big, or showing that we've boosted performance in significant and sustainable ways.

Author : Martin Klubeck
Publisher : Apress
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484225868

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Success Metrics by Martin Klubeck Pdf

Learn how to measure success at the individual and organizational levels. By measuring success in multiple dimensions using multivariate methods you will be able to determine what works and what doesn’t. The key is to measure and promote progress in terms of organizational vision, mission, and overarching goals. Business leaders too often succumb to the working assumption that they only have to show shareholders and boards of trustees that they are turning a profit—the higher the profit, the more successful their stewardship of the company. Wrong! To truly thrive and endure, all organizations—corporate, government, small, large, nonprofit, or startup—need to define and pursue the underlying purpose for their existence. To measure success, leaders today are missing a key meta-analytic in their toolbox. In this book, metrics consultant Martin Klubeck provides it to them. Success Metrics steps you through the process of identifying and combining the right measures to gauge, narrate, and guide your organization's progress toward true success. All organizations have a common goal to be successful. All leaders want to make data-informed decisions and use measures to improve processes, communicate progress, and gain support. The problem is that proxy or partial measures don’t measure overall success and can be misleading. They measure performance parameters, progress on a specific task, customer feedback, and other piecemeal indices—which taken separately fail to describe an organization’s progress toward overall success. The author's integrated measures of success can be used to communicate organizational progress to stakeholders, shareholders, boards of trustees, corporate leaders, the workforce, and the customer base and thereby galvanize broad commitment to organizational success. Klubeck shows how his principles and methods of measuring overall success can be applied at all levels: individual, team, group, department, division, and organization. What You Will Learn: Understand why you should measure success instead of performance Understand what to measure and what not to measure Integrate the measures of success to tell a complete story Share measures of success with different audiences Who This Book Is For Organizational leaders at all levels from the executive suite to middle management, analysts and consultants who are tasked with designing metrics programs for organizations, individuals interested in adapting the author's framework to measure overall personal success in multiple dimensions

Author : Brian Tracy
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814437049

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Personal Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library) by Brian Tracy Pdf

Where do you want to be in one, three, or five years? Even small adjustments can bring about enormous results to your personal success. Where does that “winning edge” you’ve heard so much about come from? How do some people seem to find success simply from waking up and getting out of bed? World-renowned performance expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying uncommonly high achievers. Instead of finding commonalities such as Ivy League educations, gold-star connections, and a dash of blind luck, Tracy discovered that the keys to their success were more often small adjustments in outlook and behavior. In this easy-to-follow guide, Tracy lays out a simple, clear plan for anyone to be able to unlock their potential and find the success they previously thought was unattainable for them. In Personal Success, you will learn to: Change your mindset to attract opportunity Banish self-limited beliefs Build your self-confidence Practice courage and taking risks Sharpen your natural intuition Continually upgrade your skills and more! Packed with simple but game-changing techniques, Personal Success is the answer you’ve been searching for to gain that winning edge and turn your dreams into realities.

Author : Belkhamza, Zakariya
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466601710

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Measuring Organizational Information Systems Success: New Technologies and Practices by Belkhamza, Zakariya Pdf

"This book explores new approaches which may better effectively identify, explain, and improve IS assessment in organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633692572

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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Clayton M. Christensen Pdf

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Mayfair Digital Agency
Publisher : Mayfair Digital Agency
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Social Media Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI by Mayfair Digital Agency Pdf

The book "Social Media Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI" provides a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of social media marketing efforts. It delves into the essential metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) used to assess the success of social media campaigns. The book covers a range of metrics, such as engagement rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, and follower growth, that provide insights into the impact of social media on brand awareness and audience interactions. Drawing on real-world examples and case studies, the book demonstrates how to track and interpret these metrics to measure the return on investment (ROI) of social media initiatives. It explores the importance of aligning social media goals with overall business objectives to demonstrate the tangible value of social media efforts. This book serves as an invaluable resource for marketers, analysts, and business owners seeking to make data-informed decisions and optimize their social media strategies for maximum impact. By mastering social media metrics, readers can effectively gauge their performance, identify areas for improvement, and leverage data to drive successful and profitable social media campaigns.

Author : Leo J. Blanken,Hy Rothstein,Jason J. Lepore
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626162471

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Assessing War by Leo J. Blanken,Hy Rothstein,Jason J. Lepore Pdf

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation. In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics. This group of distinguished authors grapples with both conventional and irregular wars and emerging aspects of conflict—such as cyberwar and nation building—that add to the complexities of the modern threat environment. The volume ends with recommendations for practitioners on best approaches while offering sobering conclusions about the challenges of assessing war without politicization or self-delusion. Covering conflicts from the eighteenth century to today, Assessing War blends focused advice and a uniquely broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare's past—and its future. The book includes a foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (USA, Ret.), former chief of staff of the US Army and former commander, Multi-National Force–Iraq.

Author : Patricia Pulliam Phillips,Jack J. Phillips,Rebecca Ray
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607280095

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Measuring the Success of Employee Engagement by Patricia Pulliam Phillips,Jack J. Phillips,Rebecca Ray Pdf

Employee engagement, impact, ROI—if you can’t connect the three, your program’s in trouble. The number of employees who sleepwalk through the day or undermine the work of their engaged counterparts is on the rise. More and more companies are turning to engagement programs to recoup lost revenue and productivity. But these pricey endeavors can lose critical funding when they are designed without business impact in mind. In Measuring the Success of Employee Engagement, renowned experts Jack Phillips and Patti Phillips and knowledge organization expert Rebecca Ray help you make the business case for an employee engagement initiative. More important, you’ll discover what it takes to build a program with the end in mind. By following real case studies that show the Phillips’s ROI Methodology in action, you’ll learn how to avoid narrowly focusing your efforts on behavioral outcomes alone. Measuring the Success of Employee Engagement is an essential resource for all who support employee engagement efforts, from the chief learning officer to individual members of employee engagement teams. Ensure that your employees drive innovation and increase sales with an engagement program that earns its keep.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Certification of Sustainable Products and Services
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309157599

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Certifiably Sustainable? by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Certification of Sustainable Products and Services Pdf

Consumption of goods and services represents a growing share of global economic activity. In the United States, consumption accounts for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product. This trend of increasing consumption has brought with it negative consequences for the environment and human well-being. Global demand for energy, food, and all manner of goods is on the rise, putting strains on the natural and human capital required to produce them. Extractive industries and production processes are prominent causes of species endangerment. Modern economies are underpinned by substantial energy consumption, a primary contributor to the current climate crisis. Expanding international trade has led to many economic opportunities, but has also contributed to unfair labor practices and wealth disparities. While certain processes have improved or become more efficient, and certain practices have been outlawed or amended, the sheer scale of global consumption and its attendant impacts continue to be major challenges we face in the transition to sustainability. Third-party certification systems have emerged over the last 15 years as a tool with some promise. There has been anecdotal evidence of success, but to date the overall impact of certified goods and services has been small. Moreover, definitions of sustainable vary across sectors and markets, and rigorous assessments of these programs have been few and far between. In order to take a step in learning from this field of practice, the National Academies' Science and Technology for Sustainability Program held a workshop to illuminate the decision making process of those who purchase and produce certified goods and services. It was also intended to help clarify the scope and limitations of the scientific knowledge that might contribute to the economic success of certified products. The workshop, summarized in this volume, involved presentations and discussions with approximately 40 invited experts from academia, business, government, and nongovernmental organizations.