Performance Assessment Of Institutions Research Articles

Partnership Strategy of Course and Training Institutions in Guaranteing the Quality of Education with the World of Work Industry: A Review

The role of the Unna Course and Training Institute (LKP) is very necessary in obtaining competent skills to meet the needs of society, especially in the field of beauty. LKP Unna aims to be able to produce graduates who are competent, efficient, and able to compete in the Business World, Industry, and Work World (DUDIKA) in the field of beauty. This research method is a review method. Journal review method by comparing one journal with another journal in the sense of integrating the results of analysis of research journals based on the similarities and differences of each and then providing new conclusions. This research aims to create an effective strategy for LKP Unna to ensure the quality of graduates so they can compete in the labor market. The government implements various policies so that the quality of Course and Training Institutions (LKP) is guaranteed, including LKP must have; NPSN; Accredited; Have Institutional Performance Assessment and process quality assurance, Course and Training Institutions ( LKP) must implement curriculum standards using: the Indonesian National Framework (KKNI), Graduate Competency Standards (SKL), and Project Based Learning (PBL) based curriculum and translated into Learning Implementation Plans (RPP) and Teaching Materials. The partnership strategy used is to be equal and in line with the needs of the world of work industry, the aim of which is to penetrate the labor market both nationally and internationally. In the industrial world of work, several aspects can collaborate including curriculum, instructors, marketing, mentoring, apprenticeships, and job placement of LKP graduates in related industrial worlds

Citizens' policy perception, policy measures, and trust in political institutions after the first wave of COVID-19

Crises bring both human consequences and political repercussions. COVID-19, like any other crisis, strained both European governments and public support for them. During the first wave of the pandemic, political trust was correlated with public adherence to infection containment measures in the major democracies. At the end of the first wave, how did public perceptions of COVID-19 measures and of measures introduced by institutions to protect health and the economy affect the bond of political trust between the governed and the governors? Using Eurobarometer data, we estimate the effects on political trust of the public’s assessment of institutional performance, political output and policy. Applying various multilevel regression models, we show that, at the end of the first wave of the pandemic, political trust was positively affected by institutional performance and only partially affected public perceptions and the policy measures taken by governments to contain the spread of the virus.

Institutional Performance of Reforms in Russian Science

Reform theory and other concepts have accumulated a rich experience in studying the institutional environment of the R&D sector, including the identification of specific parameters of performance or non-performance of individual managerial decisions or entire areas of reforms. At the same time, assessments of institutional performance are usually based on expert analysis and detection of institutional traps, and do not deal with other facets of this performance, including the achievement of those goals or benchmark indicators. Measuring the institutional efficiency of achieving the "digital" goals laid down in the reform of Russian science has revealed significant problems at the design stage of the reform. The study of the indicators whose thresholds formed the vectors of transformation of Russian science led to the following conclusions. Most of the key indicators, even taking into account the failure to meet the deadlines, remained unachieved. And in the case of meeting the "digital" targets, there are signs of either managerial opportunism or other special circumstances of an accidental nature or negative externalities. Two conclusions can be drawn from this very depressing picture. Either the reforms have failed, and institutional efficiency according to the "digital" criterion has been unsatisfactory. Or the chosen set of indicators is invalid.

Contemporary risk models for infective endocarditis surgery: a narrative review.

Infective endocarditis is a complex heterogeneous condition involving the infection of the endocardium and heart valves, leading to severe complications, including death. Surgery is often indicated in patients with infective endocarditis but is associated with elevated risk compared with other forms of cardiac surgery. Risk models play an important role in many cardiac surgeries as they can help inform clinicians and patients regarding procedural risk, decision-making to proceed or not, and influence perioperative management; however, they remain under-utilized in the infective endocarditis settings. Another crucial role of such risk models is to assess predicted versus found mortality, thereby allowing an assessment of institutional performance in infective endocarditis surgery. Traditionally, general cardiac surgery risk models such as European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE), EuroSCORE II, and Society of Thoracic Surgeon's score have been applied to endocarditis surgery. However, there has been the development of many endocarditis surgery-specific scores over the last decade. This review aims to discuss clinical characteristics and applications of all contemporary risk scores in the setting of surgical treatment of infective endocarditis.

S&T resource allocation considering both performance and potential: The case of Chinese research institutes

Abstract The ex-post assessment of institutional performance has been applied to allocate scientific and technological (S&T) resource to universities and public research institutes. However, over-emphasis on particular types of performance could lead to unintended results and harm the science system. This research assesses the performance of these universities and public research institutes using ‘technical efficiency’ and their potential using ‘capacity utilization’, which are obtained by data envelopment analysis methods. Moreover, a comprehensive S&T resource allocation framework is proposed, where the organizations can be classified into four groups according to their performance and potential assessment results. An empirical study is conducted using the data of 58 Chinese research institutes from 2011 to 2018. Results indicate different patterns in the distribution and evolution of the performance and potential of these research institutes. The approaches proposed by this research are expected to complement existing performance-based S&T resource allocations.

Are quality assurance and rankings useful tools to measure ‘new’ policy issues in higher education? The practices in Europe and Asia

ABSTRACT In the last years, ‘new’ policy issues, such as sustainability, have emerged, and old ones, such as social inclusion, have resurfaced on the political and public agendas. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to respond to these ‘new’ challenges. But how are HE systems and HEIs (namely in Europe and Asia) looking at these ‘new’ policy issues and assessing them? This article focuses on what issues are being looked at by two of the most well-known tools or mechanisms used to assess the quality of HE – quality assurance and rankings – and how are these tools dealing with these ‘new’ challenges. This article concludes that the role of the ‘new’ policy issues in the assessment of institutional performance and quality is still very limited. Developing indicators that may be used for accountability purposes or improvement purposes is a major challenge that lies ahead. Facilitating the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge on how to measure performance on the ‘new’ policy issues and on how to use that information in any of the rationale settings seems to be a promising way forward to get the ‘new’ policy issues embedded in quality assurance tools.

Local Level Institutional Self-Assessment System: Technological Innovation in Public Sector

After restructuring the governance system from unitary to federal with substantial power and resources to local level, web based Local Government Institutional Capacity Self-Assessment (LISA) system has been introduced as an innovative tool to track the performance of local governments in Nepal. The LISA intends to improve local governance which can be considered as a public sector innovation following the global trend of ICT development and e-governance. The incentive mechanism and institutional readiness are the crucial components to internalize the new system in any organization. The study illustrates that these components are poorly addressed in LISA which challenges the sustainability of the system. Moreover, the analysis shows that the issues of legal ground of the system, rewarding mechanism, IT infrastructures and IT friendly human resources at local level, quality assurance and data security, etc. are not adequately addressed to fully implement the system in future. Furthermore, capacity development and technical backstopping to the local governments are essential to make the system successful in tracking the performance of local levels. In this regard, this article presents a case of web-based institutional performance assessment system implemented at the local level governance.

Dilemma of institutional performance assessment in governmental sector

Purpose The main target of the study represented in developing a proposed Quantitative Model for the purpose of measuring the administrative performance of public governmental organizations, taking into account the validity of the model for many different contexts in practice through governmental sector. Design/methodology/approach Depending on statistical approach, both authors tried to handle this issue through assessing institutional performance in the state owned units on many levels starting from individual level (HR and leaders), sub-units, organization level, then deriving an aggregated formula for assessing general institutional performance of the whole public body in one state, depending on reviewing some of concerned literatures. Findings The authors could already formulate some proposed criteria for assessing and measuring institutional performance on three different levels. Originality/value Although the topic is considered one of the most complicated areas of institutional reform trends, the idea remains very vital as a step forward to improving public policy implementation in the governmental sector, besides that it is correlated to institutional capacity building process in practice.

Institutional Performance Assessment of Water Supply System

Institutional Performance Assessment of Water Supply System

Accounting for diverse missions: can classification systems contribute to meaningful assessments of institutional performance?

Although they have been developed for a variety of purposes, classification systems for tertiary or postsecondary education institutions offer a foundation for recognizing diverse institutional missions in policy, research, and practice. Diverse missions, in turn, are important to achieving broad societal goals of educating an increasingly diverse array of learners, contributing to scientific, technological and professional development, and addressing increasingly complex social issues in an increasingly interconnected global community. After reviewing the purposes and consequences, intended and unintended, of several popular classifications, this article addresses the potential for current or future classification systems to promote and support institutional differentiation. Specifically, we consider how appropriately designed classifications can properly recognize mission differentiation and assess the future prospects for contextualizing performance and accountability assessments through the lens of classification.

Indicadores de Sustentabilidade para Instituições de Ensino Superior: Uma Proposta Baseada na Revisão de Literatura

Objetivo: Este artigo tem como objetivo, propor um conjunto de indicadores de sustentabilidade que compreenda suas três dimensões (social, ambiental e econômico), baseado na revisão de literatura, capazes de avaliar o desempenho sustentável de Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES). Metodologia: Foi realizado um estudo de natureza teórica, com abordagem exploratória e qualitativa, a partir de uma revisão de literatura em trabalhos internacionais e nacionais que apresentassem ferramentas de mensuração da sustentabilidade em IES ou outras organizações, finalizando com a validação por um grupo de especialistas. Originalidade/ relevância: Foi identificado que as ferramentas existentes não contemplavam as três dimensões da sustentabilidade (social, ambiental e econômica), por isso a ferramenta proposta pretendeu superar essa lacuna. Principais resultados: Como resultado, este estudo apresenta um conjunto de 37 indicadores, que foram divididos em seis aspectos principais: corpo acadêmico; corpo administrativo; operações e serviços; ensino, pesquisa; e, extensão universitária. A proposta salienta que os indicadores são significativos em pelo menos uma das dimensões da sustentabilidade, como também, observam a interligação [dos indicadores] em duas ou mais dimensões, de modo que, cada aspecto possa ser contemplado em diferentes dimensões. Contribuições teóricas/metodológicas: A principal contribuição do trabalho é apresentar uma ferramenta holística e aplicável em qualquer universidade do Brasil. Conclusão: Propõe-se que a ferramenta seja aplicada anualmente, observando a frequência de mensuração dos indicadores, contribuindo para a análise do desempenho das IES, bem como, servindo de parâmetro comparativo entre diferentes universidades.

Higher education institutions: a strategy towards sustainability

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to guide higher education institutions (HEIs) in accomplishing sustainability goals while strengthening their associated systems and processes. Pursuing this goal, this study proposes a conceptual framework for modeling the HEI organizational environment; a set of strategic sustainability actions to drive movements toward sustainability; and an assessment scheme incorporating four indices to measure the degree of commitment, parity, difficulty and institutional performance throughout the implementation process of the actions proposed.Design/methodology/approachDevelopment of the work included a literature review focused on internationally established concepts, recommendations and guidelines aimed at driving HEIs to fully acknowledge the principles of sustainable development, a study of the state-of-the-art evaluation frameworks for sustainability and an analysis of scientific studies on sustainability in HEIs and society.FindingsThe overall approach proposed proved to be robust, as it synthesizes global concepts, recommendations and guidelines endorsed by key international organizations and researchers thoroughly discussed in worldwide publications related to sustainability. Moreover, the conceptual framework for modeling the HEI organizational environment, the strategic sustainability actions formulated and the assessment scheme are confirmed to be a practical and realistic strategy for assisting HEIs to effectively achieve their sustainability targets and goals.Practical implicationsFacilitation of institutional performance assessment using the hands-on tool proposed to drive HEIs toward sustainability.Originality/valueFew studies have proposed multidimensional approaches and indices to assess the institutional performance of HEIs in implementing sustainability actions.

Global trends in higher education financing: The United Kingdom

Over the last 40 years, UK higher education has moved from a publicly funded system to a mixed publicly/privately funded system regulated as a tuition loans-based consumer market, in which both the student as graduate, and the higher education institution, are responsible for a significant proportion of total costs. It is nevertheless subject to robust government control. This is partly exercised indirectly through comparative assessments of institutional performance by public agencies that define common objectives and install a hierarchy based on measured performance, helping to differentiate HEIs within the market. Institutions remain partly dependent on government funding in the forms of research-related support, teaching subsidies and subsidization of the loan system through non-repayment of debt. The 2012 introduction of a £9000 maximum fee for full-time students and £6750 for part-time students in England, based on income-contingent repayment arrangements, was associated with a net increase in funding, growth in full-time first degree students, and a sharp fall in part-time and mature age students. Part-time students begin repayments four years after the commencement of their course of study. The long-term cost of the student loans scheme is uncertain and its sustainability is in question. After 15 years of declining funding for students, total systemic funding rose by 50% between 2000 and 2015 and per student funding also rose, mainly benefiting the research-intensive universities in the Russell group. These universities benefit most from funds allocated through the government’s periodic national research assessments.

Mining Effects on Rural Livelihoods, Adopted Strategies and the Role of Stakeholder and Regulatory Institutions in Ghana. Evidence of the Amansie West District of Ghana

The study determines the effects of mining on rural livelihoods, adopted strategies and the role of stakeholder and regulatory institutions. The study achieves this by investigating the status of key rural livelihood indicators, what influence the choice of livelihood strategies in mining communities and the assessment of institutional performance. The role of institutions even though a key instrument in ensuring sustainable livelihoods is mostly not considered in livelihood studies of developing countries. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis. The significant difference in the means of income, yield value and labour cost between non-mining and mining communities is an evidence of the threat posed on communities in the study area by mining and its activities. The multinomial logit result showed that farmers’ choice of livelihood in mining communities was influenced by gender, age, family size, leadership status of household head, labour cost, annual household income, number of years of education and extension training. Farmers diversified into non-farm and off-farm livelihood strategies in order to increase or sustain income in mining communities. The study determined the performance of stakeholder and regulatory institutions through their relations and how effective functions are performed. Four (4) institutions namely EPA, MoFA, COCOBOD and Amansie West District Assembly were found significant in their relations to other institutions whilst three (3) institutions were found significant in the performance of their functions. The study concluded that poor relations and ineffective performance of stakeholder and regulatory institutions resulted in unregulated exposure and depletion of livelihood resources such as land, forest and water bodies in mining communities. The study therefore recommended that there should be inter-institutional policy that would link stakeholder and regulatory institutions together for effective performance of functions and sustainable livelihoods.

Ranking Academic Research Performance: A Recipe for Success?

Using the example of a governance system that allocates public funding for research on the basis of rankings of research quality and impact (as has been developed in the UK over the past three decades), this paper explores three conditions needed for such rankings to be effective as a basis for genuine performance improvement over time. First, the underlying metrics must be capable of meaningfully distinguishing the performance of the institutions being ranked. Second, the basis of assessment must be stable enough for changes in performance over time to be identified. Third, the ranking system should avoid perverse consequences arising from strategic responses by the institutions being assessed. By means of a hypothetical example of a series of research assessment exercises, this article demonstrates the difficulty of fulfilling all three conditions at the same time, and highlights the dilemma between reliability and validity that assessors face. This analysis is relevant to governance by indicators more broadly, because any comparative assessment of institutional performance faces similar issues.

Ranking Academic Research Performance: A Recipe for Success?

Using the example of a governance system that allocates public funding for research on the basis of rankings of research quality and impact (as has been developed in the UK over the past three decades), this paper explores three conditions needed for such rankings to be effective as a basis for genuine performance improvement over time. First, the underlying metrics must be capable of meaningfully distinguishing the performance of the institutions being ranked. Second, the basis of assessment must be stable enough for changes in performance over time to be identified. Third, the ranking system should avoid perverse consequences arising from strategic responses by the institutions being assessed. By means of a hypothetical example of a series of research assessment exercises, this article demonstrates the difficulty of fulfilling all three conditions at the same time, and highlights the dilemma between reliability and validity that assessors face. This analysis is relevant to governance by indicators more broadly, because any comparative assessment of institutional performance faces similar issues.

Values as a bridge between sustainability and institutional assessment

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that values-focused assessment can provide a useful lens for integrating sustainability and institutional performance assessment in universities.Design/methodology/approach– This study applies a values elicitation methodology for indicator development, through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews and a stakeholder workshop, in a pilot project at BOKU University, Vienna.Findings– This case highlights that many of the values held by university staff and students are pro-sustainability values. Starting from these values may be a useful way of engaging university stakeholders in sustainability dialogues. The paper illustrates how values-based indicators can be integrated into university performance assessments, providing a novel way of thinking about sustainability assessment in universities.Research limitations/implications– The exploratory pilot was carried out in a university with a focus on natural sciences. Further research could replicate and compare the results of this paper in other institutions.Originality/value– Creating a shared understanding of pro-sustainability values can help individuals to reconceptualise sustainability in relation to their own work and motivations. In doing so, it can highlight the inherent synergies between sustainability assessment and institutional performance assessment in the higher education sector, which are usually seen as separate domains.

Is the enhancement of student experience a strategic priority in Australian universities?

ABSTRACTUniversities in many countries are developing strategies to enhance the student experience. This focus has never been so important since the development of rankings and the use of student experience measures in institutional performance assessment. Australian government policies to link student experience measures to performance funding were a key driver to increase the prominence of the student voice between 2004 and 2008. This paper analyses the strategic plans of 33 Australian universities with the aim of outlining the extent to which the enhancement of student experience is embedded as one of their key priorities. This review comes at a time when universities in Australia and elsewhere are realigning their future strategies and directions to achieve government aspirations for tertiary education with the introduction of various policy instruments including the possibility of rewarding universities on the basis of student experience measures. The paper also provides a comparative analysis of government policies in Australia and the UK on the measurement and enhancement of the student experience.

H1N1 Influenza Pandemic in Italy Revisited: Has the Willingness to Get Vaccinated Suffered in the Long Run?

BackgroundThe aim of the study is to assess the long-term secondary effects of personal experience with the H1N1 pandemic of 2009/2010 and the perception of the institutional reaction to it on Italians’ willingness to get vaccinated in case of a novel influenza pandemic.Design and MethodsWe conducted 140 face-to-face interviews in the Registry Office of the Municipality of Milan, Italy, from October to December 2012.ResultsWillingness to get vaccinated during a novel influenza pandemic was best predicted by having been vaccinated against the seasonal flu in the past (OR=5.18; 95%CI: 1.40 to 19.13) and fear of losing one’s life in case of an infection with H1N1 (OR=4.09; 95%CI: 1.68 to 9.97). It was unaffected by the assessment of institutional performance.ConclusionsThe findings of this study do not point to long-term secondary effects of the institutional handling of the H1N1 pandemic. The results highlight the fact that behavioural intention is not the same as behaviour, and that the former cannot simply be taken as an indicator of the latter.Significance for public healthWhereas influenza pandemics occurred rather rarely in the last centuries, their frequency can be expected to increase in the future due to the enhanced globalisation and still raising importance of air travelling. Recent examples (Ebola, H1N1, SARS, avian influenza) demonstrate that initially local disease outbreaks often become worldwide health threats of international concern. National and international health authorities are consequently urged to present preparedness plans on how to manage such health crises. However, their success highly depends on their acceptance by the public. To ensure the public compliance with recommended actions, effective communication is needed. Since communication is most successful when it meets the needs of the target audience, a full understanding of the audience is crucial. This study can help public health experts to better understand the variables determining people’s willingness to get vaccinated during influenza pandemic, in terms of behavioural and perceptual variables. This knowledge enables them to correctly address the public’s concerns when having to communicate during the next outbreak of pandemic influenza.

Legislatures: Help or hindrance in achieving successful crisis management?

Legislatures have the potential to influence the politics and policies of crisis management. As such, they deserve analytical treatment from those interested in the effectiveness of state-led efforts to resolve crises. However, determining and evaluating the extent of a legislature's involvement in a crisis management process is a complicated research endeavour. The purpose of this article is to reduce this complexity by presenting a research framework that can be used for the analytical and evaluative exploration of legislatures in relation to crisis management. As the framework unfolds, insights are generated about how the interaction between politics and policy affects crisis management performance, and the ways in which interpretations of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ are constructed subjectively by crisis actors. Emerging from the framework is an argument that assessments of institutional performance must be cognizant of the ‘normative pluralism’ that characterises contemporary crises.