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Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance (Theater: ...

1 review

University of Michigan Press, 2001

How theater arts can heal trauma and drive political action
One of the 23 contributions by different theater activists is a chanpter on "Yuyachkani" (one word translated as meaning, in Peruvian language of Quechua, "I am thinking, I am remembering, I am your thought"). The "Yuyachkani" chapter, an example of this superb book, is about a Peruvian street theater group that has performed together in cities and rural villages since the early 1970s. ...

Performance-Based Budgeting: An ASPA Classic

Westview Press, 2000

Performance Based Budgeting is the next volume in the ASPA Classics series. It covers the most influential, paramount research articles published on public budgeting and finance. The book will surely be of great interest and use to anyone concerned with public budgeting, and anyone enrolled in, or teaching, a course on this topic in an MPA program or a doctoral program in public administration, public affairs, political science, or ...

Performance-Based Earned Value (Practitioners)

2 reviews
Paul Solomon, Ralph Young

Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2006

Whatever is measured is improved.
Paul Solomon and Ralph Young have hit the "Best Practices" ball out of the park with Performance Based Earned Value (PBEV). PBEV integrates the best of standards based Project Management, Earned Value Management, and Requirements Management standards into a single well illustrated end-to-end guide for product development teams to follow. Everyone knows that poor requirements are the single ...

Competency-Based Performance Improvement: A Strategy for Organizational Change

2 reviews
David D. Dubois

HRD Press, 1993

A "must" reading study for executives and HR professionals.
"Several factors, some of which are not under the control of HRD managers and staff, influence the potential effectiveness and efficiency of organization-based HRD. However, if its managers care enough, the HRD function can gain and maintain firm control of its performance improvement curricula, of how those curricula are translated into instructional programs, and of how its clients perceive ...

Competency-based Performance Reviews: How to Perform Employee Evaluations the Fortune 500 Way

3 reviews
Robin Kessler

Career Press, 2008

An effective method for employee evaluation and management
Robin Kessler has written this very helpful book to help small to medium businesses perform better performance reviews. Evaluating employees each year is a recognized necessity, but it is often performed rather perfunctorily and without much connection to the real work going on in the company. Her argument is that you should be using the competencies you know are key to your success as measures ...

Performance-Based Management of Police Organizations
Paul O'Connell, Frank Straub

Waveland Press, 2007

Managing a law enforcement organization is a complex, evolving process. Paul O'Connell and Frank Straub outline essential components of performance-based management that help organizations change from monolithic bureaucracies to innovative institutions. Their book traces a dramatic shift in the thinking of what constitutes policing and the refinement of organizations dedicated to community service, public safety, crime prevention, and law ...

Performance Based Evaluation: Tools and Techniques to Measure the Impact of Training

1 review
Judith Hale

Pfeiffer, 2002

High Marks for Performance-Based Evaluation
Judy Hale's bio explains that she is known for explaining complex things clearly and understandably. Reading her books gives one an idea why that is true. In this particular work, she tackles training evaluation, walking the reader through the concepts of evaluation strategy and working into the nuts and bolts. Trainers, training directors, and evaluators looking for evaluation tools with ...

A Teacher's Guide to Performance-Based Learning and Assessment
Linda Van Wagenen, Samuel Lewbet, ...

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 1996

This book describes a Connecticut school district's approach to teaching and learning that balances basic instruction with performance-based learning and assessment, using tools such as performance tasks, benchmarks, assessment lists, rubrics, and portfolios. Both literal understanding and application are important: Tasks are engaging and are well connected to the content, process skills, and work habits of the K 12 curriculum in many subject ...

Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education
Jacalyn Lea Lund, Mary Fortman Kirk

Human Kinetics Publishers, 2002

This practical resource is the first book to help teachers develop and implement performance-based assessment for middle and secondary school physical education. Whether you're a pre-service teacher or a veteran, you're sure to be called on to write assessments and provide solid data that demonstrate the outcomes for students in your physical education curriculum. Use this step-by-step book to guide you—it thoroughly covers all the ...

Motor Learning and Performance: A Situation-based Learning Approach

2 reviews
Richard A. Schmidt, Craig A. Wrisberg

Human Kinetics Publishers, 2007

User-friendly text on motor learning theory & applications
Having recently been assigned to teach a motor learning course this fall, I obtained, read, and have adopted this text for my course. The problem-based approach is helpful in making the connection between theory and application. The authors should try to put diagrams on the page which discusses them as it is sometimes confusing trying to examine them while reading the paragraphs related to the ...

Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

2 reviews
Larry Lewin, Betty Jean Shoemaker

Assn for Supervision & Curriculum, 1998

Great for new ideas on assessment.
This is a great book for alternative assessment in both secondary and elementry classrooms! It is really good for teacher who want to try new things.

Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams

56 reviews
Lou Adler

Wiley, 2007

The Definitive Guide to Hiring Top Players
More than a book, this "How-To Guide" will help you hire GREAT people - every time. Hire With Your Head teaches you how to define, locate, attract, interview, assess, negotiate, and close A-players. The concepts contained in Hire With Your Head give our organization a strategic advantage over our competition. Understanding Adler's concepts are mandatory for our entire recruiting team. You can't ...

Performance-Based Certification : How to Design a Valid, Defensible, and Cost Effective Program

3 reviews
Judith Hale

Pfeiffer, 1999

A very valuable tool for anyone in certification
Judith Hale did a great job mapping out how to build a Certification program. In a step by step process, she guides you the process and points out how to avoid the pitfalls. This book is logical, easy to follow and can be applied to many fields. If you are thinking of certification, I highly recommend this book.

Multimedia-based Instructional Design: Computer-Based Training; Web-Based Training; Distance Broadcast ...

9 reviews
William W. Lee, Diana L. Owens

Pfeiffer, 2004

An indispensable roadmap
Multimedia-Based Instructional Design is a roadmap, a AAA TripTik?, to guide you on the complex journey from assessing the need for media-based instruction to the final evaluation and analysis of your results. This book provides the plan and the tools to monitor the plan. It tells you what you need to do and strategies you may want to try. But it does not teach you step by step how to perform the ...

Creating & Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning & ...
Janet Caudill Banks

Cats Publications, 1997

International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management

Sage Publications, Inc, 2007

The International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management presents the latest scholarship in performance measurement strategies in the field of evaluation. This important resource combines cutting-edge theory and practice of performance management in the United States and abroad. The book includes contributions from internationally known scholars and practitioners who present chapters that introduce the literature on key topics and ...

Assessing Teacher Performance: Performance-based Assessment in Teacher Education
Sharon Castle

Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006

This volume is designed to share elements of effective performance-based assessments (PBAs), examine the issues related to credibility of the evidence from PBAs, and to provide practical examples of works in progress from initial licensure through advanced degree programs in teacher education.

Understanding Performance Appraisal: Social, Organizational, and Goal-Based Perspectives
Kevin R. Murphy, Jeanette N. Cleveland

Sage Publications, Inc, 1995

Based on a previous book by the same authors, Understanding Performance Appraisal delineates a social-psychological model of the appraisal process that emphasizes the goals pursued by raters, ratees, and the various users of performance appraisal. The authors apply this goal-oriented perspective to developing, implementing, and evaluating performance appraisal systems. This perspective also emphasizes the context in which appraisal occurs and ...

Performance-Based Management: What Every Manager Should Do to Get Results

1 review
Judith Hale

Pfeiffer, 2003

Practical tips to be a performance-based manager
Judith Hale has created a handbook that every manager concerned with improving performance should have in their bookcase. Real-life examples, practical checklists and additional references are provided in each chapter. The straight forward approach of Direct, Expect, Equip and Steer provides a easy to implement methodolgy for a manager to begin to improve results immediately.

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