{"id":372615,"date":"2026-09-22T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=372615"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:09:58","slug":"pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-22-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-22-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 22 \u2013 September \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Thinker of the Day | Michael Scriven<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Work &#8211;<\/strong> Evaluation Thesaurus<\/p>\n<p><strong>Views <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluation should not be restricted to the programme&#8217;s predetermined objectives. The evaluator should also identify unintended outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Formative- conducted during implementation \u2192 improves the programme.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summative &#8211; conducted after implementation \u2192 assesses its overall merit and worth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A programme may be well implemented (merit) but still have limited value (worth) if it does not address the real public need.<\/p>\n<p>Say PM POSHAN &#8211; Evaluation should examine not merely the number of meals served, but also nutrition outcomes, school attendance, inclusion and unintended effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluation should assess not merely whether a programme achieved its objectives, but whether those objectives and the programme itself were worth pursuing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Keyword of the Day | Goal Displacement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It occurs when the means created to achieve organisational goals gradually become ends in themselves. An organisation starts valuing rules, procedures and routines more than the substantive objectives for which those rules were created.<\/p>\n<p>Robert K. Merton in his analysis of bureaucratic dysfunctions showed how excessive commitment to rules can produce rigidity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUB AD PYQ VAULT | Day 50 | PYQ (2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept of administrative accountability is closely related to the concept of administrative responsibility.\u201d Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinker of the Day | Michael Scriven Work &#8211; Evaluation Thesaurus Views Evaluation should not be restricted to the programme&#8217;s predetermined objectives. The evaluator should also identify unintended outcomes. Formative- conducted during implementation \u2192 improves the programme. Summative &#8211; conducted after implementation \u2192 assesses its overall merit and worth. A programme may be well implemented&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-22-september-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 22 \u2013 September \u2013 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-ad-optional-daily-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}