A Forward Step in Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Persons responsible for evaluation of performance have found that use of single-criterion measures invariably leads to undesirable side-effects.

As a remedy, designers of evaluation methods would like to use multiple in place of single criteria, but are likely to have difficulty in amalgamating their multiple measures into a meaningful whole.

Here is a method for combining multiple-criterion scores into a conceptually satisfying, overall figure-of-merit which can be used to rank subjects or projects in order of their excellence.