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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ELP 652 - Performance Measurement

Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Students master performance measurement. The course will provide students with the concepts, tools and techniques essential to developing and implementing performance measurement systems, while emphasizing their usefulness in improving organizational and program performance. In the course, students will examine reasons for measuring performance, the principles guiding performance measurement, common problems that limit their usefulness, as well as the utility of performance and evaluation data for policy and management analysts and decision makers. Special attention will be given to the use of strategic performance measures used today to elicit change in educational systems.
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