[Scorecard] The Scorecard's scoring system

[Rainer Hoenicke]

Dear all -

Please take a look at the attached concept we are running up the flag 
pole for the WAF project. 

There are pros and cons to every one of the options.  I personally don't 
like letter grades, because they can be much more threatening to local 
government slugs than green, yellow, red; or bars indicating percent 
below a quantifiable goal or benchmark. Also, take a look at the 
Chesapeake website of the University of Maryland  http://ian.umces.edu/ 
It's worth cruising around in it.

Rainer

Frances Knapczyk wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
> Before our meeting today, please give a bit of thought about effective 
> ways of communicating environmental health to the community.
>
> Here are a few of the strongest (in my opinion) techniques:
>
>  
>
> Letter grades
>
> Word assessments (very good, good, needs improvement, poor/degraded)
>
> Colors (green=healthy to red=degraded)
>
>  
>
> The Watershed Info Center & Conservancy of Napa County Board of 
> Directors has asserted that they DO NOT find letter grades to be 
> appropriate/useful.  This group is an important audience, so we must 
> consider their opinion carefully.
>
>  
>
> We will discuss this topic during our meeting this afternoon. (For 
> those not attending, I welcome you to email me your thoughts)
>
>  
>
> Frances Knapczyk
>
> Education Coordinator
>
> Napa County Resource Conservation District
>
> 1303 Jefferson Street Suite 500B
>
> Napa, CA 94559
>
> 707/252-4188 x 120
>
> frances at naparcd.org <mailto:frances at naparcd.org>
>
>  
>
>  
>
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> *From:* scorecard-bounces at sonomacreek.net 
> [mailto:scorecard-bounces at sonomacreek.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *sec-deanne at vom.com
> *Sent:* Monday, July 21, 2008 11:04 PM
> *To:* scorecard at sonomacreek.net
> *Subject:* [Scorecard] Producing the Scorecard
>
>  
>
> Hello Project Team,
>
> Frances and I have worked out a plan for producing the Scorecard and 
> associated products. We will be asking your help in a carefully 
> scheduled sequence of discussions and assignments in order to stay 
> within our project timeline. Please review the Project Tasks and 
> Timelines, linked to the website 
> (http://sfcommons.net/hosted-groups/scorecard)
>
> These things are happening rapidly in the next three weeks:
> - Frances will send out the draft Scorecard this week
> - Conference call to make decisions on scoring-methods and graphics: 
> Thursday PM or Friday- I will send out a Doodle notice to determine a 
> good time for all. We will assign a lead on the scoring of each of the 
> three main indices.
> - Leads will provide draft indicator status scores, trends, and a 
> one-to-two sentence summary of the basis for them by Aug 1. These will 
> be plugged into the Scorecard.
> - There will be an in-person meeting scheduled in August to:
>         - discuss look and feel
>         - come up with grades for each index and decide whether to use 
> a straight average of the indicators or weighted averages.
>
> After that there will be emails getting you started writing your parts 
> of the technical reports, so we must all be on board with our scoring 
> and graphic decisions.
>
> Another urgent message to project managers: YOU MUST INVOICE at end of 
> July. We have not had invoices from some of you for many moons and 
> this is an important time to check our balances.
>
> Thank you, and please watch for the Doodle emails and respond promptly!
>
> Deanne
>
>
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Rainer Hoenicke, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
San Francisco Estuary Institute
7770 Pardee Lane
Oakland, CA 94621
510-746-7381
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