In the 2006-2007 school year, the State of Wyoming adopted an evidenced-based school funding model. The Wyoming funding model reviewed in this study is considered an evidence-based approach, utilizing expert judgment to determine educational funding. In an evidence-based approach, educational strategies are identified and a dollar figure is…

The Bolman and Deal (2003) Four-Frame Model was adapted in this qualitative phenomenological research study to describe how stakeholders experience student service-learning. The study presents how students perceive the positive benefits and critical challenges encountered in their service-learning experience; how professors perceive the positive…

The top priority for college and university administrators should be to ensure that their instructional programs, and thus their entire institutions, are managed in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Proper management of fiscal resources determines the degree to which institutions are open and affordable. Review of the current…

Southwest Missouri State University has approached the integration of planning and budgeting by focusing on short-term priority setting and using an eight-step model for evaluating decision alternatives. (MSE)

This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…

An allocation model for teaching and nonteaching staff developed at the University of Utrecht is characterized as highly normative, leading to lump sums to be allocated to academic departments. Details are given regarding the reasons for designing the new model and the process of implementation. (Author/MLW)

This model program was designed to improve inservice education for local school districts involved in the delivery of special education services to students in public schools, grades kindergarten through twelve. Six regional training centers were established in Massachusetts following a needs assessment survey of teachers to identify competencies…

This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…

The document presents a Macquarie University research team's evaluation report on the Granville Work Preparation Centre in Australia, which studied the processes required to prepare mildly mentally handicapped adolescents for independent living by teaching them work and social skills. A model is schematized in which research is conceived as having…

Summarizes conference proceedings and provides an overview of the nature and key issues of cut-back management in community mental health services. Discusses leadership and management, leadership strategies and values, the management of organizational resource reduction applied to human services, the process of reorganization, and…

The student traceback model is described and is used to demonstrate various concepts relative to institutional research methodology. The methodology of the problem-solving institutional researcher includes a wide spectrum of how-to's: how to anticipate issues in higher education and estimate their practical institutional impact; how to develop the…

As a response to demands for educational accountability, a contingency contracting model was developed at Prince George's Community College (Maryland). This human process-oriented system of accountability contains both planning and evaluation processes. The planning processes include development of goals and objectives based on assessment of the…

The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…