Feedback Frameworks Can Be Limiting. Many performance management processes use a five-point scale: unsatisfactory performance, needs improvement, meets expectations, exceeds expectations and ...

The organization’s "United States of Plastics" report uses a five-star scale to rate state-level efforts to combat plastic pollution, with 44 states scoring below three stars.

After Superintendent Portia Bonner’s first year, the Northampton School Committee voted last week to give her a “Needs Improvement grade” – the second lowest rating in the evaluation ...