This paper discusses California's Cost Effective Demonstration Reading Programs--Reading for Survival, which operate on the premise that the junior high school years are an optimum time for intensive instruction in reading. The programs use a diagnostic/prescriptive approach. This begins with diagnostic testing of all students, followed by the…

Papers include: national resources and education (B.E. Rodmell); cost control and the use of resources: a local authority view (W.H.P. Davison); problems facing chief education officers (J.C.D. Rainbow, G.M. Rickus, C.W. Phillips); and corporate management techniques used by the local authority (J.D. Hender, W.U. Jackson). (MSE)

The General Systems Theory paradigm, which has been criticized for its emphasis on consensus, hierarchy, and growth while failing to appreciate diversity or alternative structural possibilities, is examined in this paper. A review of the literature in management and administrative science revealed these criticisms to have merit, but it also showed…

The basic goal of a reading mangement system (RMS) is to individualize instruction. While few reading specialists would disagree with this goal, there is much disagreement on the question of whether such a system creates more problems than it solves. Among the advantages of an RMS cited by its proponents are: it provides a means of assessing…

The author presents a model for the evaluation of administrative performance that includes three interrelated systems (the macroorganizational, the microorganizational, and the administrative evaluation systems). He describes the competency/performance approach to administrator evaluation and enumerates variables conditioning administrative…

A certain amount of paper work is necessary in school systems, but it must be handled in a rational, planned, and controlled manner. Most problems begin and end with the lack of training for paper work and management systems. To avoid this problem, an operating procedures manual was developed for the Special Education Instructional Materials…

The methods of management science have been increasingly helpful to colleges and universities in evaluating alternatives, both instructional and administrative, and in determining the most efficient allocation of their resources. This article discusses ways in which systems techniques can be used to support the humanistic efforts so highly valued…

These five case studies cover different aspects of university planning. Two case studies analyse university planning in two countries, the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, where overall national social and economic planning exists and where planning of higher education forms part of the developed planning system. The other three case…

This paper describes and discusses a number of conceptual approaches and models for determining the cost-effectiveness of educational programs. Section 1 first discusses a number of conceptual models and designs related to cost-effectiveness analysis in education and then describes several specific cost-effectiveness models that have been recently…

This document presents the results of a study that had as its purpose the determination of unit costs for undergraduate degree graduates by discipline at the University of Bradford in Great Britain in academic year 1981. The study is based on enrollment projections as made by present enrollment trends, and utilizes the techniques of Output…

This paper summarizes the data management techniques used in a large-scale longitudinal study of intensive, innovative programs. Emphasis is placed on the scope of data collection, the methods used in the study to keep track of students over several years, the techniques used to collect data about students in public schools, the quality control on…

Reports on a project in the tri-county metropolitan Portland, Oregon area designed to help educators answer the questions: "What is to be learned?""How is it to be learned?" and "Has it actually been learned?" Educational goals were produced for use in management and planning, and coded for retrieval from a computer…

Systemic planning is an operational approach to using scientific rigor and qualitative judgment in a complementary manner. It integrates rigorous techniques and methods from systems analysis, cybernetics, decision theory, and work programing. The annotated reference sources in this bibliography include those works that have been most influential…

This literature review, based on abstracts of documents announced in RIE, compiles information on public school finance. Twenty-one documents, published since 1963, are discussed. Topics include finance methods, urban school budgets, innovations for budget planners and school managers, and financial objectives. (LN)

Self-management procedures constitute a special case of intensive or N=1 research design methodology. In using self-management procedures, an individual becomes a personal scientist, investigating and altering his own behavior. Five broad self-management strategies are discussed. Self-observation involves precise monitoring of one's behavior.…