Green local governments in Florida: assessment of sustainability performance

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...

Evolving Performance Measurement in Local Governments

While attention has typically been paid to a few select cities and counties as examples of performance measurement systems, local governments overall have been increasingly active in the development and use of performance measurement processes. This paper reports data from a national survey of city and county administrators from more than 200 local governments across the country. Findings show ...

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Preparing for Tomorrow

Special Issue on Sustainability Assessment: Developing ‘Green Thinking’ Towards Sustainability

During the last two decades academic and political discussions about the potential of environmental innovations to meet grand challenges have increased. With the topic's greater popularity, the discussion has become more substantial and dedicated to the elements of environmental innovations. During the 1990s one could understand environmental innovation as a new buzzword frequently referenced b...

Can local governments buy a good performance evaluation? Theory and evidence from the comprehensive performance assessment of English local authorities

The use of Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) to monitor the performance of 148 English local authorities (unitary and two-tier) between 2002 and 2008, and reward good performers with lower central intervention was a unique policy experiment. Taking advantage from the English assessment procedure this paper studies, both theoretically and empirically, two issues: 1) the relationship bet...