It would be helpful if you would explain what you mean by an “evaluation system”. You seem to regard it as obvious. You provide no definition. You give a few examples. But do you really want people to have to spend time to reverse engineer what you are talking about.
When people put terms in quotes when not quoting someone, as you do, it usually signifies the use of those words in some non-standard manner. The fact that you put terms in quotes thus suggests to me that you are using the words in some unspecified non-standard manner.
I can guess what you might mean and I might even feel confident I am right. And I might later find out that you intended some other meaning and I should have known what you mean.
The first rule of any essay is to be clear what you are talking about. It is not a sin to state the “obvious”. Karl Popper was notorious for this—being unclear and then deriding people for misconstruing him. See his later papers and books.
Thank you for raising the issue. Happy to clarify further.
By evaluation we refer essentially[1] to the definition on Wikipedia page here.
Evaluation is a systematic determination of a subject’s merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed
By “interesting” we mean what will do well on the listed rubric. We’re looking for examples that would be informative for setting up new research evaluation setups. This doesn’t mean the examples have to deal with research, but rather that they bring something new to the table that could be translated. For example, maybe there’s a good story of a standardized evaluation that made a community or government significantly more or less effective.
[1] I say “essentially” because I can imagine that maybe someone will point out some unintended artifact in the definition that goes against our intuitions, but I think that this is rather unlikely to be a problem.
It would be helpful if you would explain what you mean by an “evaluation system”. You seem to regard it as obvious. You provide no definition. You give a few examples. But do you really want people to have to spend time to reverse engineer what you are talking about.
When people put terms in quotes when not quoting someone, as you do, it usually signifies the use of those words in some non-standard manner. The fact that you put terms in quotes thus suggests to me that you are using the words in some unspecified non-standard manner.
I can guess what you might mean and I might even feel confident I am right. And I might later find out that you intended some other meaning and I should have known what you mean.
The first rule of any essay is to be clear what you are talking about. It is not a sin to state the “obvious”. Karl Popper was notorious for this—being unclear and then deriding people for misconstruing him. See his later papers and books.
Thank you for raising the issue. Happy to clarify further.
By evaluation we refer essentially[1] to the definition on Wikipedia page here.
By “interesting” we mean what will do well on the listed rubric. We’re looking for examples that would be informative for setting up new research evaluation setups. This doesn’t mean the examples have to deal with research, but rather that they bring something new to the table that could be translated. For example, maybe there’s a good story of a standardized evaluation that made a community or government significantly more or less effective.
[1] I say “essentially” because I can imagine that maybe someone will point out some unintended artifact in the definition that goes against our intuitions, but I think that this is rather unlikely to be a problem.
I agree with the sentiment. Although I think this should be a comment, not an answer.
Have moved to comments. Thank you both for the feedback.