Evaluation
Evaluation is systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of something or someone using criteria against a set of standards. Evaluation often is used to characterize and appraise subjects of interest in a wide range of human enterprises, including the arts, criminal justice, foundations and non-profit organizations, government, health care, and other human services.
Evaluation standards and meta-evaluation
Depending on the topic of interest, there are professional groups which look to the quality and rigor of the evaluation process. One guiding principle within the U.S. evaluation community, energetically supported by Michael Quinn-Patton has been that evaluations be useful.
Furthermore, the international organizations such as the I.M.F. and the World Bank have independent evaluation functions. The various funds, programmes, and agencies of the United Nations has a mix of independent, semi-independent and self-evaluation functions, which have organized themselves as a system-wide UN Evaluation Group (UNEG)[1], that works together to strengthen the function, and to establish UN norms and standards for evaluation. There is also an evaluation group within the OECD-DAC, which endeavors to improve development evaluation standards. [2]
The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation [3] has developed standards for educational programmes, personnel, and student evaluation. The Joint Committee standards are broken into four sections: Utility, Feasibility, Propriety, and Accuracy. Various European institutions have also prepared their own standards, more or less related to those produced by the Joint Committee. They provide guidelines about basing value judgments on systematic inquiry, evaluator competence and integrity, respect for people, and regard for the general and public welfare.
The American Evaluation Association has created a set of Guiding Principles [4] for evaluators. The order of these principles does not imply priority among them; priority will vary by situation and evaluator role. The principles run as follows:
Systematic Inquiry: Evaluators conduct systematic, data-based inquiries about whatever is being evaluated.
Competence: Evaluators provide competent performance to stakeholders.
Integrity / Honesty: Evaluators ensure the honesty and integrity of the entire evaluation process. Respect for People: Evaluators respect the security, dignity and self-worth of the respondents, program participants, clients, and other stakeholders with whom they interact.
Responsibilities for General and Public Welfare: Evaluators articulate and take into account the diversity of interests and values that may be related to the general and public welfare
Depending on the topic of interest, there are professional groups which look to the quality and rigor of the evaluation process. One guiding principle within the U.S. evaluation community, energetically supported by Michael Quinn-Patton has been that evaluations be useful.
วันจันทร์ที่ 27 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2551
Search engine and Information literacy
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"Information Literacy Skills"
For many teachers, their memories of completing a research report focus on being assigned a topic, being sent to the library, feeling lucky if they could find more than one resource (with the encyclopedia serving as the main source), and writing up the report using their own words. Most frequently, their biggest problem was not being able to find enough information in outdated books and encyclopedias.
Fast forward to the twenty-first century. The amount of information available over the Internet, on the news, and in newspapers, magazines, and books is astonishing and overwhelming. Students now are literally surrounded with Web pages of information, CD-ROMs with interactive programs, books, magazines, and other multimedia products. Most frequently, the biggest problem students face is finding too much information and not knowing what to do with it. Before students can be taught to understand concepts and skills and be asked to use their multiple intelligences, they need specific tools to work with the large amount of information at their fingertips. Without these skills, students feel like innocent lambs being thrown to the information wolves.
วันจันทร์ที่ 6 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2551
True internet gateway
Discover a new world of communication with the complete range of communication services from TRUE
True provides communication services from anything in an entry level though to gigabit broadband networks. These cover fixed-line telephones, mobile phones, wireless systems, the Internet, broadband communications and teleconference facilities. These services bring Thailand into line with world standard communication and add value to the lives of Thai people and the economy of the nation.
Introducing True Internet Gateway (TIG) A 100% True subsidiary
Established in March 2006, True Internet Gateway is a world-class specialized International Internet Gateway Services Company. With 100% support from TRUE Corporation PLC, its mother company, TIG is more than capable in providing Interconnection of all kinds, freeing up the bottle neck of the country that has been there due to lack of market competition.
What TIG Offers You
Under True, Thailand’s convergence leader, TIG together with the rest of its subsidiary collegiate companies is the one and only company that is capable of offerring you the following.
100% Total accessibility
Total reliability
Total flexibility
Complete cost-efficiency gateway related services to local
or international carriers worldwide
TIG, The first private company to be fully operable in the gateway industry since telecommunication liberalization.
TIG was granted the first license for national’s International Internet Gateway & Internet Exchange by the National Telecommunication Commission of Thailand, on May 19th, 2006. It is the first privately owned company that has fully completed the IIG license process under Thailand’s license-base regulatory regime. In fact, it is Thailand’s first private gateway to be operable on its own without having to go through the incumbents’ gateways
Thai Telecom Reform has developed step by step and paved the way for the liberalization process
his development follows the Telecom Development Master Plan (1997). The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) was formally established on January 1st, 2005, to regulate the industry. First steps included the separation of the commercial operation from the regulatory functions of both TOT and CAT. The following step was the actual establishment of NTC, the National Telecommunications Commission.
Benefits of NTC Telecom Regulations
How the objectives of NTC Telecom Regulations benefit you. Promote universal access to basic telecom services
Foster competitive markets to promote efficient supply, good quality and advanced technology of service all at realistic prices
Prevent abuse of market power
Promote investment to expand the telecom network
Promote public confidence in the telecom market through transparent regulatory & licensing processes
Protect consumer rights, including privacy rights
Promote the increased telecom connectivity of all users through efficient interconnection arrangement
Opitimize use of scarce resources, spectrum, numbers and rights of way
The elimination of Digital Divide resulted in the opening up and governing of the Internet market both upstream and downstream in the Internet Supply Chain
This was an essential part of liberalization. In the upstream supply chain, previously there was only one state-owned enterprise that took care of wholesale international Internet services and all other related businesses, i.e. International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC).
Regulations now distinguish upstream telecommunication licenses into voice and non-voice (i.e. Internet and Data). Each service will require a specific separate license for the operator to be eligible to provide service. TRUE Internet Gateway Co., Ltd. received a Type II International Internet Gateway & Internet Exchange License on May 19th, 2006. The license is valid for 5 years until May 18th, 2011.
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