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Prochnow, Harold G. – 1973
The audit report was made in compliance with the contractual agreements, legal prescriptions, and official directives under the provisions of Title VII of Public Law 89-10, as amended, for the establishment and operation of bilingual education programs. The audit report (June 12, 1973) is on the Bilingual Education Program (in its 4th year of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
North American Rockwell Information Systems Co., Anaheim, CA. – 1971
An industrial study group was contracted to perform a systems analysis of institutional training conducted under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, as amended, in order to: (1) illuminate management decisions in the areas of program priorities, alternative methods of administration, and allocation of resources, and (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Employment Programs, Labor Force Development, Program Administration
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System. – 1968
This study was undertaken for the Center for Applied Linguistics to survey and analyze its information system program for the language sciences. The study identifies and defines the generalized sets of parameters required for subsequent quantitative analysis of proposed alternative Language Information Network and Clearinghouse Systems by means of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
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House, Ernest R. – Comparative Education Review, 1978
In 1965, Robert Kennedy initiated federal evaluation policy with ESEA. His conception of political accountability was converted into a system of cost benefit analysis, which periodically justified funding curtailments. This systems approach, similar to Taylor's Scientific Management, is inadequate as the sole evaluation tool for federal programs.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Evaluation Methods
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Inst. on Education Reform. – 1995
This report describes what schools and educators across Kentucky are doing to implement school reform in school-based decision-making based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). The School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) component of KERA is a decentralized governance structure that vests great authority in SBDM councils operating at…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Callister, Sheldon; Berger, Mike – 1980
Mental health center administrators are concerned about persons who contact centers but fail to keep initial appointments. Factors within centers that discourage client follow-through must be identified and changed. Telephone surveys were attempted for 50 such individuals from the youth (N=23) and adult (N=27) team logs of the Weber Mental Health…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Dropout Prevention
Mannebach, Alfred J. – 1973
This is the report of a study conducted to develop a system which would identify the primary elements needed to install career education at the local level, provide insight into attitude changes needed regarding the installation of career education, identify strategies that could be initiated to enhance the installation of career education, and to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Problems, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
Grotsky, Jeffery N.; And Others – 1973
The Peer Evaluation Program (PEP) has been instituted by the Division of Special Education, Pennsylvania State Department of Education, to allow intermediate units an opportunity to continuously improve their programs. The advantages of the PEP system are: (1) it is a self-improvememt system of program development; (2) PEP allows local autonomy as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Symmes, S. Stowell – 1969
This pamphlet blueprints a step-by-step process of curriculum change, while it is not a pendantic discussion of the process. It also reflects a philosophy of change. It is meant to do two things: 1) to specify the kinds of decisions that must be made to achieve meaningful change; and, 2) to provide acceptable tools to carry out the tasks. Section…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Chuang, Ying C. – 1972
Under the present practices, the objectives and activities of socially oriented projects have rarely been specified with enough clarity and concreteness. Alternatives have been insufficiently presented for consideration by top management. In a number of cases, the future costs of present decisions have not been laid out systematically enough and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Needs
McIntyre, Patrick J. – 1976
The Western Washington State College Teacher Corps Project (WWSC/TC) has developed a teacher designed inservice model as part of its Ninth Cycle program. The model is based on a collaborative approach to inservice education, in which the teacher is able to draw on the resources of an institution of higher learning, a local education association,…
Descriptors: Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Development, Educational Planning
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Therrell, Bradford L.; Hannon, W. Harry – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
Newborn screening has existed as a state-based public health service since the early 1960s. Every state and most territorial jurisdictions have comprehensive newborn screening programs in place, but in the United States a national newborn screening policy does not exist. This results in different administrative infrastructures, screening…
Descriptors: Health Services, State Programs, Public Health, Screening Tests
Borich, Gary D.; Jemelka, Ron – 1977
The Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) analyzes a problem through building a model of the problem on paper which is top-down, modular, hierarchic, and structured. It is a communications vehicle using an iterative author-commenter cycle which focuses attention on defined topics, increases management control, creates a systematic work…
Descriptors: Computers, Educational Improvement, Educational Programs, Feasibility Studies
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1978
A localized system for the evaluation of investment in vocational education in Ohio is described in this four part manual. Following an instruction introduction to the manual, part II provides a description of the analytical framework for this system. Vocational education is analyzed as an investment and an explanation of the criteria used in the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Evaluation Criteria
Keierleber, Dennis L. – 1978
BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in educational institutions and to broaden the range of career options for women and men. This summary of the early efforts of BORN FREE in 9 of those 14 institutions presents…
Descriptors: Careers, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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