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Dyer, Henry S.; And Others – 1967
Progress made to date in efforts to lay the groundwork for establishing meaningful and on-going procedures for the assessment of the performance of educational systems in New York is reported. The need for educational performance indicators is that indicators would provide a series of measures to show how well educational systems are performing,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis, Feasibility Studies
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Directorate for Scientific Affairs. – 1968
This document consists of the papers presented at a meeting of experts who examined and evaluated systems analysis and management technique applications to practical educational planning. The papers focus primarily on the integration of shortrun and longrun aspects of educational planning and the relationship between objectives and implementation.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Costa, Crist H. – 1973
A set of procedures were developed which assist in structuring tasks and objectives in a manner to permit rational decision making. The model uses a jury of experts to rank various objectives and program processes in terms of their importance. Values are generated which relate to costs in the form of a utility-cost ratio. The model was tested in a…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making, Educational Research
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Haro, Michael S. – Journal of School Health, 1978
The systems approach model described here may assist providers of mental health services to develop skills that will enable them to more effectively design, collect, and analyze information pertaining to current program needs for planning, implementation, and renewal. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Health Programs, Program Design, Program Development
Michaelson, Martin – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2004
Weighing in at 567 pages, including 107 pages of footnotes, the 9/11 Commission Report is a metaphor for the primitive and often dysfunctional state of risk management in large organizations such as colleges and universities. President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, told the commission that government decisions "were made from…
Descriptors: Risk Management, School Security, Crime Prevention, Negligence
Klit, John; Wentling, Tim – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1974
The Illinois Three Phase System for Statewide Evaluation of Occupational Education Programs will be operationally dependent on the Management Information System (MIS). The efficiency of the evaluation system will be greatly enhanced by the availability in the MIS. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Information Systems
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House, Ernest R. – Educational Theory, 1980
Evaluation techniques and practices do not belong to a particular theory of justice. Systems analysis evaluation consists of defining quantitative outcome measures of program success and the establishment of causal links between this measure and the program by experimental design. (JN)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Assessment, Educational Philosophy, Evaluation Methods
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Fowkes, Kristyn M.; McWhirter, Ellen Hawley – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
This article critiques existing research on outcomes associated with the use of computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGS) by middle and secondary student populations. Although widely used, CACGS have been subjected to relatively little empirical outcome research. Limitations identified in the existing CACGS literature include a focus on…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Career Guidance, Secondary School Students, Computer Uses in Education
HARTLEY, HARRY J. – 1967
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS SHOULD BE APPLIED TO SCHOOL PLANNING TO PROVIDE A GENERAL FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE MOST REASONABLE MANNER. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS METHODS INTEGRATE THE DIFFERING VALUES OF EDUCATORS INTO COMMON OBJECTIVES. SUCCESSFUL USE OF PROGRAM BUDGETING DEPENDS ON (1) PLANNING, STRUCTURAL DESIGN, AND…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Operations Research
White, Robert L. – 1977
As our society moves increasingly from an era of affluence to one of scarcity, the evaluation and assessment of publicly supported services will become even more crucial and necessary to ensure that public resources are being expended in the most effective manner. Evaluation of library service effectiveness is defined in this paper in terms of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Libraries
COOK, DESMOND L. – 1967
THIS PAPER, PRESENTED AT THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES TO EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IN CALIFORNIA, JUNE 12-13, 1967, DISCUSSES THE USES OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION. THE DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND, WITHIN THIS…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Critical Path Method, Data Collection
Florida Community Junior Coll. Inter-institutional Research Council, Gainesville. – 1973
The IRC Model for Input-Output Analysis of Student Personnel Services is designed to provide information to support program planning-evaluation-budget systems of participating colleges. The instruments of the model have been constructed to allow the application of systems analysis techniques to a wide variety of student personnel settings. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
Hammond, Allen – 1970
Education and training systems are complex organizations of facilities, instructors, equipment, routines, and students. Because of this complexity, mathematical models can be used effectively to explain the behavior of educational systems and to assist in making decisions relative to better design and operation, and improved cost-effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Levine, Donald M. – 1971
Education is too complex, multidimensional, and poorly understood to lend itself to a single cost/effectiveness criterion. Rather, analysts in the educational field seek to rank alternatives by their effectiveness, report separately on the cost implications, and leave the tradeoffs to the decisionmaker's judgment. In this context, a program is any…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC. – 1970
Between November 1969 and September 1970, four training sessions were held--two for research directors from the 21 school districts comprising the Council of the Great City Schools, and two for members of research and evaluation staffs. The first research directors session dealt with information systems and evaluation of multiple project programs;…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Systems
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