According to the subcommittee study, the author of that report later received an evaluation of "Achieved Excellence" from bosses who recommend him for promotion, citing the cribbed media stories as "a signature accomplishment".
More research should be devoted to measuring the density of scientific communities (probably based on various techniques from graph theory), and more thought should be given as to how this measure can be factored into the evaluation of scientific excellence.
Based on a survey conducted among managers of 176 technology-based service firms and evaluations of design excellence by design experts, the findings suggest that design emphasis and design resources both contribute to market performance.
Evaluation of business performance excellence is one of the main points of learning and measurement process including employee involvement.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1755-8794/2/68/prepub This work was financially supported by the General Secretariat of Research and Development in the frame of the Program for the Evaluation of the National Research Centres (Excellence: Contract No: 2005ΣE01330081).
According to an evaluation of the first year of Excellence in Teaching by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, about half the participating principals noted improvements in teachers' instructional approach.
Additional comparison teacher data were obtained from the control teachers observed in the Core Evaluation of the Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (cCETP; controls from the CETP) program (Lawrenz et al., 2002c, 2003).
SAFE, the Special Non-Invasive Advances in Fetal and Neonatal Evaluation Network, is a European Union-funded Network of Excellence (LSHB-CT-2004-503243) that started on 1 March 2004, and is set to run for five years.
The work was undertaken at The Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement, a UKCRC Public Health Research: Centre of Excellence.
