This working document reports on a randomized controlled experiment that tested the influence of different process strategies on the added value of an urban planning support system (PSS) called Urban Strategy. The experiment involved dividing students into control and treatment groups to complete a planning task. Treatment A involved full PSS support with a mediator structuring the process as brainstorm-analyze-feedback-redesign. Treatment B involved the same full support but with the process structured as personal thinking-analyze-role based redesign. Evaluation results found that Treatment B scored higher than A on most perceived quality dimensions, though few differences were statistically significant. Sensitivity to the treatments varied by participant background, with environmental/transport engineering students more positive about Treatment B's process quality and us
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Working document no.7
Different process strategies for PSS
Influence of process strategies on added value of Urban Strategy (trial No5)
M. te Brömmelstroet
01 August 2013
This working document series is a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Wageningen University and
Research centre and TNO
The research that is presented in this series is financed by the NWO program on Sustainable Accessibility of the Randstad:
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TABLE OF CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................3
2. SETUP OF THE EXPERIMENT .............................................................................................4
2.1 Intervention: Urban Strategy PSS......................................................................................... 4
2.2 Mechanisms: how does Urban Strategy bridge the PSS implementation gap? ................... 4
2.3 Setup of the experiment....................................................................................................... 5
Student groups ............................................................................................................................. 6
Control and treatments ................................................................................................................ 7
2.4 Data gathering and analysis.................................................................................................. 7
3. EVALUATION RESULTS ......................................................................................................9
3.1 Perceived quality of the planning process............................................................................ 9
3.2 Perceived quality of the planning outcome.......................................................................... 9
3.3 Effect of different backgrounds.......................................................................................... 10
3.4 Sensitivity of roles for treatments...................................................................................... 11
4. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS................................................................................14
4.1 Reflections .......................................................................................................................... 14
4.2 General conclusions............................................................................................................ 15
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................16
APPENDIX I: COMPETITION SHEET (DUTCH)..........................................................................17
APPENDIX II: EVALUATION FORM FOR QUALITY OF THE PROCES.........................................19
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APPENDIX III: EVALUATION FORM FOR QUALITY OF THE OUTCOME ...................................21
APPENDIX IV: EVALUATION FORM FOR USABILITY OF URBAN STRATEGY............................22
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1. INTRODUCTION
In this working document we report on a fifth randomized controlled trial with Urban Strategy to
test the added value of this Planning Support System (PSS) in strategy making practices. Urban
Strategy is a software package developed by TNO that aims to improve the planning process and
planning outcomes of strategic planning. It does so by offering a range of quick models that show
the effects of planning interventions in an easy to understand visual environment. To gain more
insight into these potential improvements, we have conducted an experiment with a group of
master students in Urban Planning of the University of Amsterdam. In this fifth experiment, we
were especially interested in how different process structuring would influence the usability of PSS
and the general performance of strategy making groups. We make use of the conceptual- and
measuring frameworks as introduced and discussed in CESAR Working Document No. 1.
First, we describe the setup of the experiment and the different treatments that we have compared
(section 2). Then, the findings of the experiment are presented (section 3). In the fourth section we
will briefly discuss the implications of these findings and further research.
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2. SETUP OF THE EXPERIMENT
2.1 Intervention: Urban Strategy PSS
TNO started around 2005 with the development of a PSS – Urban Strategy (Borst et al. 2007; 2009a;
2009b) – specifically aiming to bridge the existing flexibility- and communication bottlenecks. Urban
Strategy aims to improve complex spatial planning processes on the urban- and regional level. To
do this, different computer models are linked to a central database and interface to provide
insights in a wide area of urban indicators and maps. The effects of interventions in infrastructure,
land use, build objects and their functions can be calculated and visualized. Because the PSS is able
to calculate fast and present the results in an attractive 1D, 2D and 3D visualisation this can be used
in interactive sessions with planning actors.
Starting point for Urban Strategy is the use of existing state-of-the-art and legally accepted models.
To link these existing models a number of new elements were developed:
- a database with an uniform datamodel;
- interfaces that show a 3D image of the modeled situation, indicators and that offer functionality
to add interventions;
- a framework that structures the communication between the models and the interfaces.
2.2 Mechanisms: how does Urban Strategy bridge the PSS implementation gap?
The goal of Urban Strategy is to enable planning actors in workshop sessions to communicate their
ideas and strategies to the PSS and to learn from the effects that are shown. This interactivity calls
for fast calculations of all the model and fast communication between all elements. For this, the
models were enabled to respond on events (urban interventions from the participants in the
workshops. A new software architecture was developed to have all these elements communicate
(figure 2).
Through this increases speed and the wide variety of models that are linked together, the PSS aims
to be highly flexible in offering answers to a large number of questions that a group of urban
planning actors can have.
Figure 2 Schematic overview of communication architecture of Urban Strategy.
The 3D interface generates, based on objects in the database, a 3D digital maquette of the urban
environment. To this, different information layers can be addes, such as air quality contours, noise
contours and groundwater levels. Also, the objects can be colored according to their characteristics
(function, energy use, CO2 emissions, number of inhabitants, etc). The 2D interface can be used by
the end user (or operator) to add changes to the database. Objects can be added or removed, their
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location can be changed and the characteristics of the object can be changed. The 1D interface
shows indicators that are calculated by all the models that are included. Examples are the
percentage of noise hindrance, group risk in an area or the contribution of types of objects to CO2
emission.
Figure 3 The three interfaces of Urban Strategy
Urban Strategy as a PSS is not only a computer instrument, but also offers process support for
groups of planning participants. It does so by using a Maptable (a surface table screen on which
people can interact with the information from the instrument) and by having a mediator organize
the exchange of knowledge between participants and between them and the computer instrument.
In earlier experiments we have found that especially the process support is an essential element in
understanding the added value of an instrument such as Urban Strategy for planning practice. First,
adding a mediator already appears to improve the functioning of the group by offering external
structure. Next to structuring the interaction between the participants, the process support also
structures the interaction between the participants knowledge and the knowledge of Urban
Strategy. Doing this well seemed to positively influence the added value of the instrument to the
planning process.
2.3 Setup of the experiment
These observations of the importance of the process support led to the setup of this controlled
experiment. The research question here is: Does the setup of the process support influence the
added value of Urban Strategy for strategy making?
We designed our study as a randomized controlled laboratory experiment. With this we aimed to
optimize the internal and external validity of our findings. Testing the most general claim of the PSS
literature (that it improves planning) calls for a strong focus on the ability to translate our findings
to theory. Although we have had special attention to mirror characteristics of urban planning
practice as good as possible (see below), this means a sacrifice of ecological validity.
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Student groups
The experiment was set up as an obligatory part of a first year course of Traffic Engineering of the
Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, and as a voluntary part of a second year course of
Environmental Engineering of the Saxion University of Applied Sciences and a second year course of
Urban planning of that same University.
A total of 65 students participated; 9 in the control group, 32 in Treatment A and 24 in Treatment B.
These students were randomly divided into groups of twelve. Each group contained 3/4 traffic
engineering students, 2/3 environmental engineering students and 6 urban planning students.
These last students were randomly divided into 3 project economists and 3 urban designers. With
this setup we attempted to create the complexity of real world planning processes, while avoiding
the overrepresentation of one single group. Therefore, the urban planning students (that were a
large majority) were split up into two characters for they are both educated.
Several weeks before the experiment, each student was sent an e-mail in which they were invited
to join a TNO-UvA design competition. They received the basic information about the planning area
(figure 4), the existing strategy (figure 5) and the setup of the meeting (60 minutes to come up with
an improved strategy). Each of the four roles received a role specific target for the competition.
Also, they were informed that the competition was within their own role: the best traffic
engineering idea would win etc. Next to that, they received role specific information about specific
problems that the existing plan had (i.e. the traffic engineering students received road-capacity
maps, while the environmental engineering students received noise and external safety boundary
maps).
Fig. 4. Brownfield location in the old harbors of Rotterdam
Fig. 5. Original design for the area provided to each group
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Control and treatments
The resulting seven groups were randomly divided into one control- and six treatment groups. The
control groups received no support; they were assigned to a table with empty plans, instructed to
start, and informed that the time was up. We used this control group to see if and how the findings
of this experiment can be compared with those of earlier studies. There can be some general
effects on our indicators that relate to the fact that we work with different types of students, larger
groups and/or a slightly changed planning challenge.
The six control groups were divided into three groups that received treatment A and three groups
that received treatment B. Both of them were using the same physical setup in the same room
(figure 6):
Treatment A: Full support by Urban Strategy including the use of the surface table. All plans and
ideas are put into Urban Strategy and their effects are translated back to the group.
Process is structured by one mediator into a sequence of brainstorm, analysis,
feedback and re-design.
Treatment B: Full support by Urban Strategy including the use of the surface table. All plans and
ideas are put into Urban Strategy and their effects are translated back to the group.
Process is structured by one mediator into a sequence of personal thinking, ,
analysis, feedback, role based re-design.
Fig. 6. Physical setup for groups: Table with maps and whiteboard to develop ideas (left) and interaction with the
calculated effects through a surface table with a chauffeur (right)
2.4 Data gathering and analysis
To find out if there are any systematic differences in the performance of the control- and treatment
groups we have made use of several data gathering techniques. For this we used the framework for
quality of planning as presented on the 2013 CUPUM conference. See table 1 for the dimensions
and subdimensions that were measured.
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Table 1. Dimensions of the quality of planning
First, two external planning experts (PhD candidates in Urban Planning of the University of
Amsterdam) rated the general quality of the resulting strategies. For each strategy, they were
asked to respond to statements on the dimensions A to F of table 1 (on a 7 point Likert scale). They
were not informed of the hypothesis, nor were they aware of which strategies came from control-
or treatment groups.
Secondly, all participants filled in an evaluation form in which we solicited their personal
perceptions of the quality of the planning process. They responded to statements relating to the
dimensions J-W of table 1. And thirdly, we have used direct observation. These observations were
mainly used to understand the outcomes of the first three analytical instruments.
For the analysis, the responses on the statements were averaged and then compared and tested
for systematic differences. To indicate the strength of the differences in effects, we used the p-
value of a ANOVA F-test to compare two independent means (<0,05 is considered statistical
significant). The statements were grouped for the subdimensions and overall dimensions by
averaging them. The two statements on conflict were first inverted to make them compatible with
this process. For the outcome dimensions, the scores of the raters were also averaged and then
processed in the same way.
Finally, we asked all participants in the treatment group to rate Urban Strategy on a number of
usability indicators, using a 7-point Likert scale.
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3. EVALUATION RESULTS
3.1 Perceived quality of the planning process
All findings are represented in figure 7. On the x-axis, all process dimensions are represented (the
grouped dimensions are capitalized). On the y-axis, the score on a seven point Likert Scale is shown.
The four categories of which the average scores are shown are the control groups of our former
experiment (see CESAR Working Document Series no.6), the control group of this experiments,
treatment A and treatment B.
The outcomes show several trends. First, the control group show a number of negative impacts
compared to experiment 4. This indicates that we have simulated planning practice more realistic,
since the scores in experiment 4 were very high. We see these drops most notably in Shared
Language and Cohesion and to a lesser extent in Credibility, Efficiency and Consensus.
Second, we see that Treatment B scores higher on almost all dimensions (except Efficiency). None
of these differences are significant. For the majority of dimensions, Treatment A scores lower than
the control group.
Fig. 7. Scores for control and treatment groups on all process dimensions on 7-point Likert scale (composite dimensions
are capitalized)
3.2 Perceived quality of the planning outcome
Figure 8 has a similar setup as figure 7. By adding different backgrounds to the groups, we expected
that also the quality of the strategies would suffer. This is indicated by the drops in scores for the
control groups, especially on Acceptability, Implicational Explicitness and Clarity. Implementability
however increased.
In these scores, we find that Treatment A scores notably better than Treatment B on all Specificity
subdimensions. The other dimensions show very little difference and do not indicate a clear
direction. The total score for Treatment B is higher than for Treatment A.
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Fig. 8. Scores for control and treatment groups on all content dimensions on 7-point Likert scale (composite dimensions
are capitalized)
3.3 Effect of different backgrounds
In the experiment, participants from different educational backgrounds participated. If we look at
the responses for each of these groups separately (figure 9), we see that on most dimensions the
environmental engineering students were most positive on the quality of the process. The
transport engineering students are also mostly on above average, while both roles played by the
urban planning students scored lower. The plan economists were in general quite dissatisfied with
the impact of their role on the process and outcomes. They often used the open question to
ventilate their frustration with this.
Fig.9 Scores on process dimensions for the different educational backgrounds on 7-point Likert scale (composite
dimensions are capitalized)
The participants of Treatment 1 and Treatment 2 groups were also asked for their opinion on the
usability of Urban Strategy. Again, we have looked at their scores per role (figure 10). We find again
that the environmental- and transport engineering students are mostly more satisfied with the
usability characteristics of Urban Strategy.
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Fig.10 Scores on usability indicators for Urban Strategy for the different educational backgrounds (please note that
‘Creativiteit beperkend’ is an inverted dimension)
3.4 Sensitivity of roles for treatments
Next to the general responses on the usability characteristics of Urban Strategy, our setup allows us
to see the sensitivity to the treatments controlled for the four different backgrounds. First, we have
done this analysis for perceived process quality. Figure 11 scores the difference between Treatment
A and Treatment B on the composite dimensions of process quality. A positive number means that
on average the respondents score higher under Treatment B. An asterix (*) means that the
difference is statistical significant (P<0,05).
Fig. 11 The different sensitivities to the treatments for the four educational backgrounds on the composite process
quality dimensions
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The data shows that the environmental engineering students and to a lesser extent the traffic
engineering students are more positive when they received Treatment B. This is seen on almost all
dimensions. The Urban Planning students were much less sensitive to the difference in treatments.
The Urban Designers show small positive effects of Treatment A on most dimensions (especially on
efficiency) while the Plan Economists show a more mixed image.
The same has be done for the perceived usability characteristics of Urban Strategy. The differences
between Treatment B and A is presented in figure 12.
Fig. 12 The different sensitivities to the treatments for the four educational backgrounds on the perceived usability
characteristics of Urban Strategy (Treatment B – Treatment A)
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Most of the effects are small and not statistically significant. The once that are significant are
marked with an asterix in figure 12. These however do not present a clear trend. As with the trends
on process quality dimensions it is notable that again both engineering student groups are
positively influenced by Treatment B.
14. 4. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
4.1 Reflections
There are several important reflections to make on the methodology that have serious implications
for the results and their generalizability. The laboratory setup with students allows for strong
control over the treatment and control groups, but it also simplifies the complexity of daily
planning practice on some important aspects (which is the target application of Urban Strategy).
The most important ones are listed below.
Students: In the context of planning practice, the student population of this experiment can be
considered as being empty vessels. They do not have much tacit knowledge about the issues in the
Waalhaven case; neither do they have vested interests or accountability for it. This makes the
experiment relatively insensitive for some important effects that can be expected in real planning
practice, such as developing a shared language or gaining consensus. Related to that, we would also
expect to see more effects on the quality of the planning outcome in such a practical environment.
Group size: The group size was planned to be considerably larger than in the former experiments
(with up to 12 participants per group). However, many students (especially from the urban planning
group) were not showing up. This didn’t only mean that the groups became much less populated,
but also that the internal characteristics of each group differed. This makes it quite hard to
distinguish between the effect this has and the effect that the treatments have.
First timers: A large majority of the students stated in the open question that they enjoyed the
strategy making exercise, since they never did this before. This is mirrored in the relatively high
scores on the process dimensions (such as satisfaction) by the students in the control group. Again,
this makes the experiment less sensitive for process effects that would be expected in planning
practice. Here, the participants would have much more (negative and positive) experiences with
similar processes and are better able to assess the added value of Urban Strategy. Also, they would
be able to score the instrument characteristics (table 3) more in relation to other instruments.
Related to that, we cannot assume that the control group worked as ‘business as usual’.
Raters: Due to time constraints, we worked with two external raters from the University of
Amsterdam. For them it was difficult to assess some of the quality dimensions of the planning
outcome. This affected both their judgment of the control and treatment planning outcomes, which
makes its implications less relevant. They both noted that the outcomes were poorly written and
some lacked a legend. This sometimes made rating difficult.
Reliability: To ensure that the statements are measuring the elements that we aim to measure, we
have analyzed the reliability of the composite scores for all dimensions that were measured by
more than one statement. When Cronbach’s Alpha is higher than 0,7, the variance on the
responses on separate statements can be considered to be comparable. The results of this are
shown in table 2.
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Table 2 Outcomes on reliability of composite scores for dimensions of process- and outcome quality
Cronbachs Alpha Cronbachs Alpha
REACTION 0,904 NOVELTY 0,956
enthusiasm 0,759 original 0,924
satisfaction 0,806 paradigm relatedness 0,815
credibility 0,668 WORKABILITY* 0,643
INSIGHT 0,823 implementability
insight in problem* 0,563 acceptability 0,794
insight in assumptions 0,818 RELEVANCE 0,879
COMMITMENT applicability
COMMUNICATION effectiveness 0,908
SHAREDLANGUAGE* 0,418 SPECIFICITY 0,909
CONSENSUS 0,733 completeness 0,786
consensus on problem* 0,528 implicational explicitness
consensus on goals clarity 0,812
consensus on strategies* 0,504 OUTCOM QUALITY 0,941
COHESION* 0,428
EFFICIENCY
PROCESS QUALITY 0,932
The composite scores that have a low reliability are marked with an asterix.
4.2 General conclusions
With these methodological limitations in mind, the experiment has offered us some interesting
insights how different process strategies influence the added value of a PSS such as Urban Strategy.
As in earlier experiments the classical usability characteristics of the instrument itself are highly
rated. Overall, participants are enthusiastic about the instrument and often surprised about its
speed and ease of use. They also noted some missing functionality, mainly the lack of other modes
than car, more information retrieval on demand (i.e. on nr of inhabitants etc) and the lack of a way
to overlap different maps on the surface table.
Working with students that have real differences in their educational backgrounds allowed us to
simulate planning practice much closer than in earlier experiments. This lead to insights in that
especially the engineering students were sensitive to the way the process was organized. They
perceived both the quality of the process as usability of the instrument higher when they received
Treatment B. It seems that the individual thinking element that was offered allowed the
participants to develop their own ideas better and both engineers were than more satisfied with
how the instrument provided them with feedback on their ideas. For the urban planning students,
this was much less visible. It even seemed that the once that were given the role of urban designers
were more satisfied with the group brainstorm of Treatment A. It is however important to realize
that we found almost no significant proof for these insights. They are mainly based on looking at
the trends and observing the experiment itself.
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APPENDIX I: COMPETITION SHEET (DUTCH)
Introductie
De Rotterdamse haven groeit nog steeds, maar deze groei speelt zich steeds meer ten Westen
van de stad af. Omdat de havenindustrie steeds grootschaliger wordt, verschuiven
havenfuncties naar nieuwe gebieden zoals de Tweede Maasvlakte. De hierdoor vrijkomende
gebieden zijn aantrekkelijke locaties voor stedelijke transformatie: ze liggen relatief dicht bij
de binnenstad en bieden in combinatie met het water interessante mogelijkheden voor wonen,
werken en recreatie. Naast deze mogelijkheden zijn er uiteraard ook grote uitdagingen, zoals
de aanwezigheid van industrie en afwezigheid van stedelijke infrastructuur.
Eén van de gebieden die momenteel voor zo’n opgave staat is Waalhavens (zie kaartjes
hieronder).
Figuur 1: Projectgebied Waalhavens in haar stedelijke context
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Figuur 2: Stedenbouwkundig plan (Oranje = wonen , blauw = werken, rood = horeca).
De gemeente Rotterdam heeft in samenwerking met het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam ambitieuze
plannen geformuleerd voor dit gebied dat voornamelijk bestaat uit twee oude havenarmen.
Het gebied moet een toplocatie worden voor toonaangevende kennisbedrijven en een
aantrekkelijke woonkwaliteit bieden voor hoogopgeleide tweeverdieners. Daarnaast moet het
bijdragen aan de duurzaamheid van de stad én moet het voldoen aan eisen aan de
milieukwaliteit.
Het huidige stedenbouwkundige plan (zie figuur 2) scoort nog mager op ruimtelijke kwaliteit.
Om ervoor te zorgen dat het voor bedrijven en hoogopgeleide tweeverdieners een interessante
plek wordt is het aan jullie interdisciplinaire planningsteam om dit sterk te verbeteren! In deze
fase van het planproces staan de vorm en functie van de gebouwen al vast. Je kunt dus vooral
spelen met de oriëntatie, locatie en de openbare ruimte. Het gaat uiteindelijk om de
gebiedsschets en geschreven strategie.
Opdracht
In 60 minuten met je team tot een verbeterd stedenbouwkundig plan komen (dit lever
je in met 1 kaart plus tekst). Organiseer jezelf. De ruimtelijke kwaliteit van het plan
(kaart plus tekst) wordt beoordeeld op de aantrekkelijkheid van het plangebied. Maar
ook op de creativiteit van de oplossingen. De ruimtelijke planner die hier het best op
scoort krijgt een TNO prijzenpakket.
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APPENDIX II: EVALUATION FORM FOR QUALITY OF THE PROCES
Uw groepsnummer:
Uw studentnummer:
Wat was uw rol/achtergrond?
NVT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Ik heb er vertrouwen in dat de uitkomst goed is
Ik ondersteun de meeste resultaten van de sessie
De sessie heeft geleid tot nieuwe inzichten
Ik begrijp nu de voorgestelde oplossingen van de andere
deelnemers beter
Het resultaat van de sessie is gebaseerd op correcte
aannames over het stedelijk systeem
De sessie was succesvol
Het proces heeft me inzicht gegeven in de meningen en
ideeen van anderen over het probleem
Ik heb een goed gevoel over de sessie
Ik heb nu meer inzicht in de processen die een rol spelen
in het probleem
Ik zal inzichten uit de sessie gaan gebruiken in mijn
dagelijkse praktijk
Ik begrijp nu hoe andere deelnemers het probleem zien
Het resultaat biedt een echte oplossing voor het
probleem
Het is duidelijk voor mij wat de oorzaken van het
probleem zijn
De andere deelnemers begrijpen beter hoe ik het
probleem zie
Ik ben tevreden met de sessie
De sessie heeft geresulteerd in bruikbare resultaten
Mijn inzicht in het probleem is vergroot
Mijn begrip van de meningen van andere deelnemers
over het probleem is toegenomen
We hebben tijdens de sessie een gemeenschappelijke
professionele taal ontwikkeld
De sessie heeft mijn inzicht in de relatie tussen de
verschillende elementen van het probleem vergroot
De andere deelnemers zijn tevreden met de sessie
Zeer mee
oneens
Zeer mee
eens
RO (stedenbouwkundig) RO (planeconomie)
Milieukundige Verkeerskundige
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NVT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Ik was goed in staat mijn mijn rol uit te voeren
We hebben een gedeelde visie over strategische doelen
bereikt
Er was sprake van conflict tijdens de sessie
We waren in staat consensus over het probleem te
ontwikkelen
We hebben een gedeelde visie over mogelijke
oplossingen bereikt
Er was conflict over de uit te voeren taak
We hebben een gemeenschappelijke visie over het
probleem bereikt
We hebben de tijd efficiënt benut
Tijdens de sessie ontstond een platform die het delen
van ideeen ondersteunde
De sessie bracht me dichter bij de andere deelnemers
Ik heb vanuit mijn rol interventies kunnen inbrengen in
het plan
De onderwerpen die vanuit mijn rol van belang zijn, zijn
tijdens de sessie goed naar voren gekomen
De resultaten zijn een integratie van diverse meningen en
ideeen van de deelnemers
Ik had een sterk groepsgevoel tijdens de sessie
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APPENDIX III: EVALUATION FORM FOR QUALITY OF THE OUTCOME
Geef a.u.b. het nummer van de strategie aan:
NVT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
De strategie is ingenieus
De strategie is fantasierijk
De strategie is verrassend
De strategie is vernieuwend
De strategie is radicaal
De strategie heeft een transformerende potentie
De strategie is eenvoudig te implementeren
De strategie is sociaal acceptabel
De strategie is juridisch acceptabel
De strategie is politiek acceptabel
De strategie heeft een duidelijk verband met het probleem
De strategie zal het probleem oplossen
Dit is een effectieve strategie
De strategie kan worden opgedeeld in verschillende componenten
De strategie gaat in op "wie"
De strategie gaat in op "wat"
De strategie gaat in op "waar"
De strategie gaat in op "wanneer"
De strategie gaat in op "waarom"
De strategie gaat in op "hoe"
Er is een duidelijke relatie tussen voorgestelde acties & verwachte uitkomsten
de strategie wordt duidelijk gecommuniceerd
De strategie is makkelijk te begrijpen
De strategie sluit aan op stedelijke dynamiek
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APPENDIX IV: EVALUATION FORM FOR USABILITY OF URBAN STRATEGY
Jullie groepsnummer
Je Studentennummer
Wat was uw rol/achtergrond? RO (stedenbouw)
RO (planeconomie)
Milieukundige
Verkeerskundige
Welke themas hebben jullie vooral gebruikt Luchtkwaliteit
in Urban Strategy? (meerdere mogelijk) Externe veiligheid
Geluid
Stedenbouw
Verkeer
Planeconoom
Anders. nl.;
N.V.T
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Urban Strategy is transparant
De communicatieve waarde van de output is hoog
De output wordt duidelijk weergegeven
Urban Strategy is gebruiksvriendelijk
De output is geloofwaardig
Urban Strategy is uitgebreid genoeg
De focus van Urban Strategy is voldoende
Het detailniveau van de kaarten is voldoende
Urban Strategy is makkelijk te begrijpen
Urban Strategy sluit goed aan bij de rol die ik vervulde
Urban Strategy faciliteerde het evalueren van
alternatieven goed
Urban Strategy faciliteerde het creëren van ideeën goed
Urban Strategyondersteunde het schetsen van ideeën
goed
Door het gebruik van Urban Strategy werden zin en onzin
van elkaar gescheiden
Door het gebruik van Urban Strategy werd onze
creativiteit beperkt
Ik begrijp wat er (niet) wordt meegenomen in de
indicatoren
Door Urban Strategy waren we in staat om meer te doen
in minder tijd
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oneens
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