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Record W1974257054 · doi:10.1177/0163278703026002005

Evaluability Assessment

2003· article· en· W1974257054 on OpenAlexaff
Wilfreda E. Thurston, J. R. Graham, Jennifer Hatfield

Bibliographic record

VenueEvaluation & the Health Professions · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicEvaluation and Performance Assessment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLogic modelProcess (computing)Process managementOutcome (game theory)Product (mathematics)Key (lock)Theory of changeProgram evaluationReflection (computer programming)PsychologyManagement scienceKnowledge managementMedical educationMedicineNursingComputer sciencePolitical scienceSociologyEngineering

Abstract

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Using a local cross-cultural health service program as a framework, the authors describe the process of an evaluability assessment (EA) and illustrate how it can be a catalyst for program change. An EA is a process that improves evaluation. The key product was a logic model, which traces the links between objectives, activities, and outcomes. Four key insights emerged. First, the distinction of who was included and excluded in the target population, originally ambiguous, was clearly defined. Second, through the development of the logic model, staff members were able to analyze their goals and assumptions and critically explore possible gaps between expected outcomes and activities. Third, the EA enabled reflection on and clarification of both process and outcome measures. Finally, global goals were pared down to better match the project capacity. Developing an evaluability assessment was a cost-effective way to collaborate with staff to develop a clearer, more evaluable project.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.213
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.380
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.213
Threshold uncertainty score0.970

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2130.380
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0120.005
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.592
GPT teacher head0.676
Teacher spread0.085 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations40
Published2003
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