Assessing responsibility for program output

Assessing Arms Makers Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a focal point for research aimed at extending business ethics to extra-corporate issues; and as a result many companies now seek to at least appear dedicated to one or another version of CSR. This has not affected the arms industry, however. For, this industry has not been discussed in CSR literature, perhaps because few CSR scholars have questio...

Space debris: Assessing risk and responsibility

We model the orbital debris environment by a set of differential equations with parameter values that capture many of the complexities of existing three-dimensional simulation models. We compute the probability that a spacecraft gets destroyed in a collision during its operational lifetime, and then define the sustainable risk level as the maximum of this probability over all future time. Focus...

A Framework for Assessing Responsibility in Intergovernmental Partnerships.

Advancing the health of the poor requires aligning a wide array of interests, all of which influence how health care is delivered. Global health professionals often face difficult decisions that can affect their working relationships with government officials, local colleagues, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector interests. This article proposes a "compass-based" framework ...

Assessing Program Outcomes

1. Abstract Assessment of the degree program objectives and the individual course outcomes are critical components of an overall degree program review and evaluation. When assessment is in a form of a test, the administration, collection and the final aggregate report generation become somewhat time consuming and generally lags behind. In this paper we present web-based software that is primari...

Hallmarks for assessing a solid program.