Assessment of programs

Re iew and Assessment of Program Optionsfor Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants at Blue Grass (Letter Report) (2005)... 

Kim, R. and Skolnick, J. (2008) Assessment of programs for ligand binding affinity prediction. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 29, 1316—1331. 

This chapter is not a comprehensive review of assessment instruments and approaches, nor is it a complete tutorial on assessment design and analysis (6). Other chapters in this monograph expand on those concerns and provide additional references and examples. The goal of this chapter is more simply to assist chemistry instructors in thinking about assessment in richer and more deliberate ways. Attention is focused on student outcomes, but much of the discussion and some of the instruments are applicable to a wider range of interests, including outcome assessment of programs and professional development of instructors. 

Performance should include assessment of program objectives and results by organizational unit, by program element, and for the entire program. Previous ch ters discussed methods for assessing safety and health performance. 

Smart Assessment of Program and Course Outcome with Students Objectives... 

Assessment of Program Outcome by Open-Ended Experiment in Enzyme Technology Laboratory Course... 

Adequate sample size. The sample should be large enough to detect program effects of plausible size. In addition, the size should permit assessment of program impacts on key subgroups of the target population as appropriate. Minimum detectable effects should be determined prior to implementation of the evaluation. 

Program evaluation. An external assessment of program effectiveness that uses specialized methods to determine whether a program meets certain standards, to estimate its net results or impact, and/or to identify whether the benefits the program generates outweigh its costs to society. 

Conduct audits of regional/facility HSE compliance and assessments of program implementation efforts. 

Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ocyone 1989, United Nations Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization, New York, 1989. 

Quality assurance programs are designed to serve two functions (1) assessment of collected air quality data and (2) improvement of the data collection process. These two functions form a loop as air quality data are collected, procedures are implemented to determine whether the data are of acceptable precision and accuracy. If they are not, increased quality control procedures are implemented to improve the data collection process. 

Safety Monitor is an interactive computer program (Stamm, 1996) that performs real-time assessments of configuration-specific plant accident risk. Originally used at Southern California Edison s San Onofre station in 1994, further development was sponsored by three nuclear utilities and EPRI, to include shutdown operation and expanded user features. It will be enhanced to calculate large early release frequency (a Level 2 risk). 

The official report sums up the lessons of the fire by saying that it might have been prevented or its severity greatly reduced if a more detailed assessment of the inherent hazards and risks of the plant had been carried out by the company beforehand and if adequate records had been kept to build up a history on which an inspection and replacement program could have been based. 

Despite their limitations, surveys can play a role in assessing PSM program status. Surveys can be used in advance of each site visit to gather information that you subsequently review with facility staff and verify during a visit. This may reduce the time needed on-site. 

The basis for your program plan should be your team s assessment of the current PSM status (Figure 4-11), which will have yielded a list of deficiencies compared with the required PSM elements. These gaps must now be translated into statements of required tasks, which in turn suggest work products for inclusion in your implementation plan. For example, your assessment shows that the process knowledge and documentation management system needs improvement. To address this gap you need to plan a series of tasks. 

The main output from this stage is a detailed assessment of the human error problem areas. If possible this should include quantitative data on the incidence of errors and the significance of their consequences. This will provide a valuable baseline against which to evaluate the success of the error management program. 

Assessment of policy needs to support these programs... 

Having completed the assessment of the existing systems, you will now be in a position to estimate the level of effort required to design and implement new systems. You have now identified where systems, programs and elements exist and their potential value as a basis for integration. In other areas, you will have nothing to work with and will need to design completely... 

Your project resource requirements are lower. Following the assessment of existing systems you found that for most of the programs and elements good models existed that can be readily adapted for general use. 

Stanford Research Institute. (1976). A Preliminary Social and Environmental Assessment of the ERDA Solar Energy Program 1975-2000. Vol. 1, Main Report. Menlo Park, CA Stanford Research Institute. 

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