Category Archives: Evaluative rubrics

Cool ideas from personnel evaluation: Evaluative rubrics

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Jane Davidson

Well, this week is Evaluation Week at SIOP (the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology) and SIOP week on the AEA365 blog. So, it’s a good time to consider some of the synergies across the two disciplines. My doctoral training … Continue reading →

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“No value-free”: The importance of visible values

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jane Davidson

The “no value-free” line of the Genuine Evaluation song (composed by the incomparable Kataraina Pipi, evaluator and composer/musician, with input from several other genuine evaluators!) was inspired by an earlier post where we defined genuine evaluation and drew some lines … Continue reading →

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Punished for productivity – poor use of an average in performance evaluation

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

Developing good performance indicators is not easy.  The history of their use is littered with examples of how they can produce a distorted picture of performance and provide dysfunctional incentives.  Burt Perrin’s report to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation … Continue reading →

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How good is a “good” outcome?

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Jane Davidson

Earlier in the week, I passed on a quote from a review of Ziliak and McCloskey’s (2008) book The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives asserting that: … many researchers are so … Continue reading →

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The Friday Funny: A productivity analysis of Schubert’s work

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

How might a productivity expert assess an orchestral performance? And what can we learn about genuine evaluation from this?
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