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On evaluating evaluations

Policy Sciences, 1983
The act of evaluation requires an expenditure of resources. In Part I of this paper, we present a simple decision tree model borrowed from operations research to provide a conceptual framework for considering whether or not to commit such resources. In Part II, once the evaluation is carried out, we address the problem of evaluating the evaluation as a
Larson, Richard C., 1943-   +1 more
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An Evaluation of Evaluations

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
Physicians will be subject to periodic reexamination in the course of their professional careers. There is an urgent need to determine correlations between test results on examinations now being used and the actual competence of physicians in their clinical practice situations.
S M, Small, P F, Regan
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Reproducibility: Evaluating the Evaluations

2021
Evaluation is at the heart of reproducibility in research, and the related but distinct concept of replicability. The difference between the two is whether the determination is based on the original author’s source code (replicability), or is independent of the code and based purely on a written description of the method (reproducibility).
Daniel Lopresti, George Nagy
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Meta-evaluation: Evaluation of evaluations

Scientometrics, 1999
The A. first considers the antecedents of evaluation and the motivations for carrying it out. Turning then to the Framework Programme he reviews the history of its evaluation and the present approach. Finally, he considers some challenges raised by the Fifth Framework Programme, in particular those concerning the evaluation of social effects and the ...
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Evaluating evaluation measure stability

Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2000
This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thumb experimenters use, such as the number of queries needed for a good experiment is at least 25 and 50 is better, while challenging other beliefs, such as the common evaluation ...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
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