Do community pharmacist performance evaluations capture the modern pharmacist’s role? Mapping competencies assessed in Canadian community pharmacy performance evaluation templates against the General Level Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 638-642.e2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Il Young Max Chong ◽  
Meagen M. Rosenthal ◽  
Kenneth R. Manson ◽  
Sherilyn K.D. Houle
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Community Pharmacist ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
General Level ◽  
Role Mapping

scholarly journals Developing An Evaluation Protocol For The Toronto Public Library (TPL) System Through The Application Of A Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) Of A Branch Library To Inform Its Retrofit Strategy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Martin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Design Intent ◽  
Evaluation Protocol ◽  
Operational Costs

Buildings play a significant role in our economy and society. Substantial capital is invested in buildings, and they are the locales where a large portion (e.g., work, cultural, religious, social and personal activities) of our lives are conducted. Despite the significant monetary and temporal investments in buildings, building performance evaluations (BPEs) are not standard practice. From BPEs that have been conducted, important findings have been identified. Significant gaps frequently exist between the design intent of buildings and their measured performance (e.g., energy and water consumption) and user satisfaction (e.g., thermal comfort, lighting, noise). Environmental (e.g., resource consumption) and economic drivers (e.g., productivity, operational costs) are spurring the growth of BPEs. A BPE was conducted of the Weston Public Library (WPL) with the intent of informing a retrofit strategy and developing a protocol for conducting BPEs in the Toronto Public Library (TPL) system.

Sorting Through Performance Evaluations: The Influence of Performance Evaluation Reform on Teacher Attrition and Mobility

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 2339-2377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis A. Rodriguez ◽  
Walker A. Swain ◽  
Matthew G. Springer
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Teacher Attrition ◽  
Effective Teachers ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Race To The Top ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
American Education ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Low Performing Schools ◽  
School Settings

The federal Race to the Top initiative signified a shift in American education policy whereby accountability efforts moved from the school to the teacher level. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we explore whether evaluation reforms differentially influenced mobility patterns for teachers of varying effectiveness. We find that the rollout of a statewide evaluation system, even without punitive consequences, was associated with increased turnover; however, there was comparably greater retention of more effective teachers, with larger differences in turnover between highly and minimally effective teachers confined to urban districts and low-performing schools. These results imply that states and districts can increase exit rates of low-performing instructors in the absence of automatic dismissals, which is a pattern that our analyses suggest may not generalize beyond urban school settings.

scholarly journals WIT: A Wireless Integrated Traffic Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arta Doci ◽  
Fatos Xhafa
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Ad Hoc Network ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Network Applications ◽  
Protocol Performance ◽  
Synthetic Models

Simulation is a common approach for designing ad hoc network applications, due to the slow deployment of these networks. The main building blocks of ad hoc network applications are the routing protocols, mobility, and traffic models. Several studies, which use synthetic models, show that mobility and traffic have a significant effect on protocol performance. Synthetic models do not realistically reflect the environment where the ad hoc networks will be deployed. In addition, mobility and traffic tools are designed independently of each other, however real trace data challenge that assumption. Indeed, recent protocol performance evaluation using real testbeds show that performance evaluations under real testbeds and simulations that use synthetic models differ significantly. In this paper we consider jointly both real mobility and traffic for protocol performance evaluation. The contributions of this work are as follows: (1) demonstrates that real mobility and traffic are interconnected; (2) announces the design and implementation of WIT –Wireless Integrated Traffic–, which includes the design of a real traffic generator; (3) shows that under real mobility and integrated traffic the performance metrics need to be re-thought, thus we propose availability as a new ad hoc network protocol performance metric; and, finally, (4) evaluates protocol performance under synthetic and real mobility models with integrated traffic. We believe that the results of our work constitute a step forward toward benchmarking of ad hoc network performance evaluations.

Multidimensional performance evaluation styles: budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Masuya ◽  
Eisuke Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Purpose This study aims to reconceptualize performance evaluation styles and reveal their performance effects. Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review, this study conceptualizes performance evaluation styles on two dimensions: priority of budgetary targets when setting performance criteria and use of accounting information for ex-post performance evaluation. This study discusses two concepts – budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments – to explain these two dimensions, and their optimal combination is then investigated by considering environmental uncertainty. The empirical analysis uses survey data from Japanese firms. Findings The results indicate that suitable combinations of budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments differ depending on environmental uncertainty. As expected, a combination of lower budget rigidity and higher discretionary adjustments is optimal in an uncertain environment. Contrary to expectations, a combination of higher budget rigidity and higher discretionary adjustments is optimal in a stable environment. Moreover, higher discretionary adjustments complement budgetary targets’ motivational effects, regardless of environmental uncertainty. Originality/value This study’s theoretical and empirical analysis suggests that it is difficult to understand the performance implications of performance evaluation styles without recognizing their multidimensionality and interdependencies. Moreover, the results demonstrate that discretionary adjustments in budget-based performance evaluations seem to act rationally in practice.

The Study on Indexing Techniques in Data Warehouse

2010 ◽  
Vol 439-440 ◽  
pp. 1505-1510
Author(s):  
Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Variable Size ◽  
Indexing Techniques ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time And Space Complexity ◽  
Size Data

Nowadays, data warehouse has already become the hot spot in database studies. Indexes can potentially speed up a variety of operations in a data warehouse. In this paper, we present several relatively mature index techniques in data warehouse. Then, we give a comparison between them on performance evaluations. This paper focuses on the performance evaluation of three data warehouse queries with three different indexing techniques and to observe the impact of variable size data with respect to time and space complexity.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (A CASE STUDY AT MAHABODHI PRIMARY SCHOOL)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-247
Author(s):  
Johanes JOHANES
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Evaluation Program ◽  
Education Organization ◽  
Teacher Performance Evaluation ◽  
Important Position

Human resources have an increasingly important position in the state of dynamic society, especially in the current society condition, which is oriented towards professional work. On the other hand, at this time Indonesia has entered the era of globalization, which requires competent and qualified human resources in their respective fields. One of the elements of creating human natural resources is the teacher, so it is deemed necessary to have competent and qualified teachers in an education setting. The success of an education organization is very much determined by the readiness of the teachers in preparing their students through teaching and learning activities. Thus, the purpose of this study was aimed to determine the implementation of teacher performance evaluations at SD Mahabodhi Jakarta. Qualitative research methods were used to describe the implementation of teacher performance evaluation programs. The results showed that the performance and quality of a teacher increases with the implementation of performance management according to the prescribed standards. The performance evaluation program refers to management principles which includes four components, namely (1) Planning performance evaluation, (2) Organizing performance evaluations, (3) Implementation of performance evaluation, (4) Supervision of teacher performance evaluation. Thus, it can be concluded that the teacher performance evaluation program can improve teacher performance and quality.

scholarly journals Developing An Evaluation Protocol For The Toronto Public Library (TPL) System Through The Application Of A Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) Of A Branch Library To Inform Its Retrofit Strategy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Martin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Design Intent ◽  
Evaluation Protocol ◽  
Operational Costs

Buildings play a significant role in our economy and society. Substantial capital is invested in buildings, and they are the locales where a large portion (e.g., work, cultural, religious, social and personal activities) of our lives are conducted. Despite the significant monetary and temporal investments in buildings, building performance evaluations (BPEs) are not standard practice. From BPEs that have been conducted, important findings have been identified. Significant gaps frequently exist between the design intent of buildings and their measured performance (e.g., energy and water consumption) and user satisfaction (e.g., thermal comfort, lighting, noise). Environmental (e.g., resource consumption) and economic drivers (e.g., productivity, operational costs) are spurring the growth of BPEs. A BPE was conducted of the Weston Public Library (WPL) with the intent of informing a retrofit strategy and developing a protocol for conducting BPEs in the Toronto Public Library (TPL) system.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Patients Accepting and Declining Participation in a Transition of Care Service Provided by a Community Pharmacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianne M Kowalski ◽  
Amanda R Margolis ◽  
Nicole Schreiner ◽  
Jeff Kirchner
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Community Pharmacist ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Transitions Of Care ◽  
Risk Category ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Transition Of Care ◽  
Significant Difference

Objectives: To identify characteristics of patients who accepted or declined an appointment for a transition of care service provided by an independent community pharmacist and identify the most common reasons patients declined the service. Methods: A transition of care service was offered by a community pharmacy to patients discharged to home from the cardiac unit of a local hospital. The community pharmacist approached patients prior to discharge for recruitment into the service. Outcomes included service acceptance rate, LACE score at discharge, readmission risk category, age, gender, geographic home location, and reason for refusing the service. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to compare characteristics between those who accepted or declined the service. Reasons for decline were assessed using content analysis. Results: Of the 87 patients that were included in the analysis, 21 patients received the transitions of care service (24.1%). None of the characteristics were found to be statistically significant between patients who received or declined the service. Patients at a moderate risk for readmission seemed more likely to accept the pharmacist-run appointment than those at high risk (27.9% vs 15.3%; P = 0.29). Of the 66 patients who declined, 51 gave a reason (77.3%). Thirty-nine patients saw no benefit (76.5%), five patients had perceived barriers (10%), and seven patients gave reasons that fell into both categories (13.5%). Conclusions: This evaluation did not find a statistically significant difference in characteristics between those patients who accepted or declined participation in a pharmacist-run transition of care service. Patients may be less likely to accept pharmacist-run transition of care appointments primarily due to no perceived benefits. To increase participation, we need to understand the patient’s health beliefs, educate patients on pharmacy services, and implement changes to recruit potential patients. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this evaluation. This evaluation was presented as a poster presentation at American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, March 4-7, 2016 and at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Education Conference, April 5-6, 2016. This evaluation was presented as a podium presentation at Great Lakes Residency Conference, April 27-29, 2016.   Type: Original Research

scholarly journals The Performance Evaluation System in Pakistan’s Civil Service

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Maryam Tanwir ◽  
Azam Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Present System ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Smart System ◽  
Performance Evaluation System ◽  
Bureaucratic Performance

While achieving economic growth anddevelopment are dependent on the performance of the bureaucracy, there is a growing inability in Pakistan to objectivelyevaluate this performance. In this article, we examine performance evaluations systems that can be applied to developingcountry bureaucracies and find that the best system in the Pakistani context is the SMART performance evaluation system. We then analyze the present Pakistani system and compare it to an example of a SMART system and find that the disconnect between the actual performance of the civil service and the measurement of this performance by the performance evaluation report (PER) in Pakistan, has discouraged optimal performance. The article also looks at the perceptions of senior civil servants themselves on what they perceive as the shortcomings of the performance evaluation management system in Pakistan as well as their opinions on a potential SMART performance evaluations system. The article recommends an immediate re-evaluation of the present performance management where the re-evaluation initiatives must be tempered with the realization that the present system has been established not to optimize bureaucratic performance but rather to sustain the present system of patronage and power.

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