Performance-Based Evaluation Metrics: Influence at the Macro, Meso, and Micro Level

This chapter aims to critically engage with the performative nature of bibliometric indicators and explores how they influence scholarly practice at the macro, meso, and individual levels. It begins with a comparison between two national performance-based funding systems in Sweden and Norway at the macro level, within universities at the meso level, down to the micro level where individual researchers must relate these incentives to knowledge building within their specialty. I argue that the common-sense “representational model of bibliometric indicators” is questionable in practice, since it cannot capture the qualities of research in any unambiguous way. Furthermore, a performative notion on scientometric indicators needs to be developed that takes into account the variability and uncertainty of the aspects of research that is to be evaluated.

Integrating conformance and performance for the evaluation of urban planning implementation from a goal-oriented perspective

Urban planning implementation evaluation (UPIE) is an important tool for the supervision and inspection of the outcomes, processes and effectiveness of planning implementation. Conformance-based evaluation refers to the exploration of the degree of coincidence between actual situations and planning contents. Decision-centred performance evaluation focuses on exploring the role and purpose of plans in the implementation process. Although consensus has been reached on conformance and decision-centred performance evaluation, goal-oriented performance evaluation needs further development. Therefore, the integrated theoretical framework of UPIE, which emphasizes social effectiveness, has been constructed with goal-oriented performance in mind. It is suggested that performance-based evaluation that focuses on social effectiveness reveals the gap between actual situations and planning goals and can be established by the degree of realization of planning goals. Meanwhile, it has put forward a service-capabilities-based evaluation methodology which relies on the spatial matching between service supply and user group demands. Taking the Urban Master Plan of Xi’an (2008–2020) as an example, the results of UPIE show that this blueprint needs further revisions and adjustments. Through a goal-oriented methodology, the integrated theoretical framework can attract more attention to social effectiveness.

Performance based evaluation of an existing continuous reinforced concrete bridge – a case study

A performance-based evaluation was conducted on an eleven-span reinforced concrete bridge located in a high seismicity area. This bridge was designed using SNI 2833:1992 and to be checked using the updated Indonesian seismic hazard map. In addition, a non-linear time history analysis was conducted using eleven pairs of ground motions to evaluate the structural performance of the bridge pier for the anticipated service life. Elastic analysis shows that the existing bridge still satisfies the strength and serviceability requirement despite the increase in seismic demand. Meanwhile, by evaluating the average inelastic longitudinal reinforcement and concrete strain at bridge pier for selected eleven ground motions, this study suggests that the bridge is still “fully operational” and “life safety” when subjected to the lower level (100 year return period) and upper level (1000 year return period) ground motions, respectively.