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Download full textCook, Desmond L. – 1968
The nature and extent of systems analysis in education is discussed in terms of the following specific applications: (1) Instructional systems where the concern is with the components of the system (e.g., teachers, students, material to be taught, or audiovisual systems) and their interaction in the learning process, (2) project management systems…
Descriptors: Administration, Information Systems, Instruction, Operations Research
Sire, Paul W. – AEDS J, 1969
Descriptors: College Administration, Guides, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Farquhar, John; And Others – 1971
The functional design of the information system proposed for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is detailed in this report. The design specifies input data, processing, file formats, and report formats. The implemented system will provide information in four general areas: personnel, program/budget, educational results, and community…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Design, Education
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
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
MOOD, ALEXANDER M.; POWERS, RICHARD – 1967
DIFFICULTIES ARE ENCOUNTERED WHEN COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES ARE APPLIED TO EDUCATION. THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN THE ATTEMPT TO DEFINE AN EDUCATIONAL GOAL AND IN THE ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOW ENGAGED IN A MULTITUDE OF PROJECTS DESIGNED TO COORDINATE RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT. THIS ENTAILS CONTINUED…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Benefits, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
