effectiveness
Let an agent explain effectiveness, relay definitions, measurement approaches and field-specific uses from management, evaluation and health research sources, describe the named measures and flag loosely filed aliases, and distinguish effectiveness from efficiency, efficacy, productivity and popularity.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain effectiveness, relay definitions, measurement approaches and field-specific uses from management, evaluation and health research sources, describe the named measures and flag loosely filed aliases, and distinguish effectiveness from efficiency, efficacy, productivity and popularity.
The degree to which something achieves its intended results, used across management, medicine, policy and engineering, and distinguished from efficiency, which concerns the resources used to achieve results, and from efficacy, results under ideal conditions in trials; the registry aliases name related performance measures in specific fields, such as team effectiveness, self-efficacy, a person s belief in their ability to succeed, athletic performance, computer performance and response time, and box office performance of films, which are distinct concepts and appear loosely filed. Measuring effectiveness requires clear goals, valid indicators and attention to context.
What it is for: Judging whether goals are achieved.
It can be explain the concept; relay measurement approaches; describe named measures; flag loosely filed aliases.
Distinguishing features
Goal achievement
Context-dependent
Needs indicators
Many fields
What it looks like
Not a physical object; seen in evaluations, metrics and outcomes.
Physical character
efficacy vs effectiveness: trial versus real-world conditions note - health research
self-efficacy concept: 1977 year - Albert Bandura
registry parent: quality note
How it is recognised
Degree of achieving intended results
Response time, self-efficacy, box office performance, computer performance, team effectiveness, athletic performance
Efficiency concerns resources; efficacy is ideal-condition performance; productivity is output per input; popularity is audience appeal
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is contrasted with -
is contrasted with -
is contrasted with - loosely filed alias
In practice
Families and kinds
organisational effectiveness
clinical effectiveness
policy effectiveness
team effectiveness
technical performance measures
Standards and regulation
Evaluation standards such as OECD DAC criteria
Health technology assessment methods
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing effectiveness and efficiency
Poor indicators
Loosely filed field-specific aliases
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What effectiveness is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is effectiveness, and how does it differ from efficiency, efficacy, productivity and popularity? definition
- Is the question about management, health, policy, technology or sport? boundary
Measures
Named measures.
Measures
Measures.
- What are response time, self-efficacy, box office performance, computer performance, team effectiveness and athletic performance? definition
- Which entry fits the specific measure? action
Measurement Measurement.
Sources.
Indicators
Indicators.
Indicators
Indicators.
- How are goals and indicators chosen to measure effectiveness? measurement
- Which references are standard? provenance
Evaluation
Evaluation criteria.
Evaluation
Evaluation.
- How do OECD DAC criteria assess effectiveness of programmes? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Fields Field uses.
Attribution.
Health
Clinical effectiveness.
Health
Health.
- How do pragmatic trials measure real-world effectiveness? provenance
- Which entry fits pragmatic clinical trial? action
Teams
Team effectiveness.
Teams
Teams.
- What do researchers say makes teams effective, with findings attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Related concepts.
Context.
Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy.
Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy.
- What is self-efficacy, and how does it differ from effectiveness? provenance
- Which entry fits self-efficacy? action
Computing
Computer performance.
Computing
Computing.
- How are computer performance and response time measured? measurement
- Which entry fits benchmark (computing)? action
What the second pass must settle
- The registry aliases self-efficacy, box office performance and computer performance should be moved to their own entries
- Should clinical effectiveness be a separate entry?
- How should evaluation standards be linked?