In the daily running of institutions, several factors guide the administrative influences through judgment and evaluation. Evaluation is the comparison
of actual impacts in relation to the strategic plans (objectives and their accomplishments) whereas judgment is the ability to make a decision or form a wise opinion objectively.
Each educational institution is expected to have short and long term goals in its mission and vision, where influences through judgment and evaluation are a daily occurrence. The leadership in these circumstances would rely on its rich experience to steer decisions.
Stories of success attained previously and/or elsewhere would come in handy. It would absolutely do no harm as well to borrow a leaf from the experience of other administrators in other institutions, within and without the geographical boundaries of the given institution.
In addition, seeking the opinion of other stake holders within the structure of governance and membership would inform greatly the administrative influences through judgment and evaluation of their contributions. In some instances, these opinions have been looked down upon, only for administrators to regret.
This is in view of the fact that although a staff could be subordinate, he/she could be rich in other experience that is not necessarily administrative. The other area of administrative influences through judgment and evaluation is in the use of questionnaires.
These are specific questions, well drafted to examine particular aspects of the organization. The responses accorded these questions can be 'Yes or No' answers, or be open-ended to give room for diversity of ideas. Since the coverage is specific, questionnaires do not necessarily have to be long, especially given they incur a lot of tabulation before inferences can be made.
For effective administrative influences through judgment and evaluation, information technology should be embraced, to ease the burden of analysis and boost accuracy which is extremely important.