Resources for Students in my Courses
Below are some important resources for students taking
my courses; others may find these links useful also.
Students taking one of my courses should
1) join the course listserv,
2) look at the course-specific help page below,
3) examine the list of files available in the course folder,
and 4) browse below for other useful resources.
(Please email me to report any links that do not work.)
Other instructors can feel free to use any of my on-line
materials and links as they desire.
Help for Students in my Specific Courses:
Course and MPA Listservs:
Instructional Files for my Courses:
MPA Information and Student Forms:
Portland State University Links:
Reading, Writing, Footnoting, Documentation Guides:
Data, Statistics, Statistical Computing:
Computing Skills, Including Spreadheet Skills:
Program Evaluation:
Performance Measurement in Portland and Multnomah County:
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City of Portland Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
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City of Portland, Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report
(SEA), 2002-03, Thirteenth Annual Report on City Government
Performance (pdf file, 3.8 meg.)
- Other City of Portland SEA reports:
2001-02,
2000-01,
1999-00,
1998-99.
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Daniel E. O'Toole and Brian Stipak, "Implementing Service
Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting: The Portland Experience".
In Arie Halachmi and Geert Bouckaert, eds., Organizational
Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector, 101-113.
Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1995.
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City of Portland, Managing for Results Proposal, 2002
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Auditor's Office, City of Portland
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Organization and Business Methods of the City Government of Portland,
Oregon, report by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 1913
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Selected quotes from report by the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research on the City Government of Portland, 1913
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Multnomah County Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
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Multnomah County Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report
(SEA), 2003 (pdf file, 1 meg.)
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Suzanne Flynn, Multnomah County Auditor,
"Sustaining Performance Measurement"
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Auditor's Office, Multnomah County
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Administrative Methods of Multnomah County, Oregon, report by
the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 1913
Oregon Benchmarks:
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State of Oregon Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
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Maria Pilar Aristigueta, Managing for Results in State Government,
Ch. 6 (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1999), pp. 87-108,
covers Oregon benchmarks and managing for results
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Mike Lewis, Sandy Lockhart, and Dave de Montreuil, "Oregon Benchmarks,
Changing Systems by Stealth: A Success Story in the Making"
Performance Measurement, Other:
Performance Auditing:
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Government Auditing Standards ("The Yellow Book")
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Government Accounting Standards Board
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Audit Services Division, City of Portland
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Auditor's Office, City of Portland
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Auditor's Office, Multnomah County
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Audits Division, State of Oregon
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National Association of Local Government Auditors
- Portland Bureau of Parks
and Recreation audit, 2000, Report #261, pdf format
- Portland Bureau of Police
Overtime Management audit, 2000, Report #272, pdf format
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Example of an innovative use of correlations and statistical graphics
in a performance audit
Managing Information Resources, E-Government:
Other Links, Government:
Other Links, Academic:
Other Links, Professional:
Other Links, Miscellaneous:
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