evaluation

Feedback Survey for Participants in the Open Government Dialogue

by Tim on August 2, 2009

A number of organizations (listed below) are doing a survey to capture participant feedback from the recent Open Government Dialogue. From the survey introduction: On his first day in office, President Obama issued a memorandum to leaders of executive departments and government agencies calling for the development of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, that [...]

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Finding Appropriate Evaluation Criteria for Participant Input

by Tim on February 17, 2009

A common approach to trying to surface the most relevant, highest-quality or most agreed-upon items out of a large quantity of content is to allow participants to rate each other’s contributions and then expose the highest-rated items in a “most popular” list. Very often, a simple binary, up-or-down rating mechanism is used for this purpose. [...]

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