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Yeager, Garth B.; And Others – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1974
There is a pressing need for informational gathering activities designed to facilitate the decision-making activities of State and local vocational education planners. Management Information Systems are suggested as the rationally planned means whereby the information is received and transmitted. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Download full textMolnar, Andrew R. – 1971
Both the trend toward the scientific information explosion and the trend toward equal opportunity of education are altering what we teach and how we teach. While the movement in research and development in education has been toward using systems applications to deal with these changes, there are some problems with this approach. The domain of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Kontiainen, Seppo – 1989
This study intoduces a strategy for analysing different kinds of phenomena by building "information structures" for analysing how parts make a whole in complex systems. The strategy introduced may be of use when there is a need to understand complex systems or situations; e.g., in various studies of adult education when education is seen as…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Planning, Educational Theories, Evaluation Methods
COOK, DESMOND L. – 1967
THE COMBINED APPLICATION OF SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IS DESCRIBED AS AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO ACHIEVE OPTIMUM RESULTS IN THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. PROJECTS OF THIS TYPE ARE GENERALLY FINITE, COMPLEX, HOMOGENOUS, AND NONREPETITIVE. SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF A PROJECT INCLUDES ITS DISASSEMBLY INTO…
Descriptors: Administration, Charts, Critical Path Method, Educational Objectives
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1969
This bibliography describes the contents of selected publications considered relevant for the study of systems analysis in educational planning. The citations and their annotations, in both English and French, are organized into (1) the uses of systems analysis in educational planning, (2) selected systems analysis techniques applied to education,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Demography, Educational Planning
Judy, Richard W. – 1970
This report describes the major projects undertaken by the Institute for Policy Analysis of the University of Toronto. It includes a list of the publications that are now available and those that will become available during the next few months. The projects are: (1) Program Planning and Budgeting in Universities; (2) Planning and Financing Higher…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Financial Policy, Higher Education, Information Systems
Thomas, Charles R. – 1973
Some of the major elements of administrative information systems design as applied to higher education are described. Differences between the application of computer technology in the commercial environment and the educational environment are discussed. The major steps in systems development from problem definition through implementation are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computers, Conference Reports, Data Processing
Haag, Daniel; Munari, Silvio – Educational Documentation and Information, 1979
Includes 410 annotated citations arranged as follows: systems analysis; management in the public sector; policy, strategy and planning; organization; control and evaluation; costs and financing; information and decision-making systems. (JEG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Costs, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Saunders, Laura E. – 1979
Institutional research and the role of information systems are examined and three types of information provided by institutional research offices are discussed: institutional studies, management analyses, and periodic management reports. The varying characteristics of research offices are described and the role of the institutional research office…
Descriptors: Administration, Computers, Data Processing, Databases
PDF pending restorationBrown, Edward K. – 1970
Where research activities operate under "fixed" budgetary and resource conditions, allocations of funds must be carefully planned for effective program implementation. Although relatively little information is available on how small research units could use the principles of programed budgeting, a technique for ascertaining program…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Budgets, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Parden, Robert J., Ed. – 1970
This conference on program budgeting was planned to accomplish four objectives: (1) provide a basic orientation for academic administrators by defining program budgeting, and explaining how it might help their institutions; (2) interpret the vocabulary of systems analysis; (3) identify the different levels of involvement at which an institution…
Descriptors: Administrators, Conference Reports, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Valentine, Ivan E.; Lowery, Nelson W. – 1971
The five papers contained in this document were written by individuals with nationally recognized expertise on the selected subjects and designated experts presented reviews of the papers during the institute. Topics include: (1) "An Assessment of Present Information Systems and Implications for Vocational Education" by Douglas C. Towne, (2)…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Information Systems
Farquhar, John – 1972
Six reports concerning design of an information system to aid the Los Angeles city schools in implementing accountability and program budgeting are summarized. Extensive interviewing and system analysis led to focusing decisionmaking and accountability on the individual school principal, unlike the present centralized decisionmaking and resource…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Computer Programs, Decision Making
COOK, DESMOND L. – 1966
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC LISTING OF 109 RELATED ADDRESSES, ARTICLES, BOOKS, MICROFILMS, MONOGRAPHS, REPORTS, AND OTHER ITEMS, PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1959 AND 1968, INCLUDES 39 ITEMS ON NETWORK PLANNING, 48 ITEMS ON RESEARCH MANAGEMENT, 13 ITEMS ON PROJECT SELECTION, AND NINE ITEMS ON PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. (JK)
Descriptors: Administration, Bibliographies, Critical Path Method, Decision Making
Operation PEP, Burlingame, CA. – 1967
This is a collection of 21 reports presented at the two-day symposium which ended the eighteen-month planning phase for OPERATION PEP. The symposium served as a culminating activity in a training program for 100 California educators in the application of systems analysis and management planning techniques. The reports, funded under Title III of…
Descriptors: Consultants, Deafness, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
