Talk:Performing an assessment

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-- Jouni 23:04, 24 January 2008 (EET)

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Coverage of description

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Fact discussion: .
Opening statement: RA process description in Guidance to indicator selection and specification does not cover execution and reporting

Closing statement: Under discussion (to be changed when a conclusion is found)

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⇤--1: . The process description covers the phases of the RA process all the way until the product of the RA, i.e. the (causal) description of reality, is complete. the last step in the chain, called good quality causal network, means that in the description the variables and their relations are defined up to the level of being adequate quality, including the variable definitions (i.e. contents of the attributes. Therefore it does cover the phase of execution or assessment itself, but does not explicitly cover reporting, treating it as a separate phase after completion of the description. The process chain going from purpose, users & uses to good quality causal network actually attempts to describe the evolution of the product as the process that manipulates it progresses rather than identifying steps of the process itself. The description is built on the assumption that defining the relations between variables goes hand-in-hand with defining the variable contents in an iterative manner, and that they can not be separated into first choosing variables and defining their relations and second defining the variable contents (relations are, in fact variable contents). --Mikko 10:53, 7 August 2007 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

Consistency of wording

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Fact discussion: .
Opening statement: Are names of phases of RA correct?

Closing statement: Under discussion (to be changed when a conclusion is found)

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⇤--1: . Which terminology do we agree upon in SP 1 and SP 4? At the SP4 Oslo meeting (August 2007) had agreed on Desing phase consists of Scoping, Framing and Causal diagram, but in the [Design Document] the terminologies are mixed --Alexandra Kuhn 13:24, 10 August 2007 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

----2: . I know, I'm sorry about this confusion. I was pretty happy that we could agree on a terminology in Oslo, until I tried to apply it. Different words had conflicting meanings, and I couldn't build a coherent whole of those without making a few new terms. In addition, "Design" had a clearly different meaning in the previous graphs (written by Erik, I think). I tried to clarify the terms (see above). But first we should agree on what the things behind the words are, only then we can have progress on terms --Jouni 17:48, 14 August 2007 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
←--3: . I would think that SP 1 should agree on the terminology and SP 4 adopts the results. For this document we should use what we have at the moment. --Alexandra Kuhn 11:25, 15 August 2007 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)