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Download full textGeneral Services Administration, Washington, DC. – 1983
This report presents an initial approach developed by the General Services Administration for the management of end user computing in federal government agencies. Defined as technology used directly by individuals in need of information products, end user computing represents a new field encompassing such technologies as word processing, personal…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Administrators, Change Strategies
Gilpatrick, Eleanor; Gullion, Christina – 1977
This document is volume 4 of a four-volume report which describes the components of the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS) method of task analysis, job ladder design, and curriculum development. Divided into three chapters, volume 4 is a manual for using HSMS task data and analysis results to develop curriculum objectives, guidelines, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Ladders, Course Organization, Curriculum Design
Energy Conservation in Buildings--A Human Factors/Systems Viewpoint. NBS Building Science Series 88.
Rubin, Arthur I. – 1976
The current emphasis on energy conservation in buildings must be balanced by a careful consideration of how proposed approaches affect building occupants. A headlong rush toward building designs that conserve energy at the expense of the quality of buildings as judged by occupants would be a very shortsighted approach. There must be a continual…
Descriptors: Building Design, Criteria, Design Requirements, Energy Conservation
Muller, Mervin E. – 1968
A review of statistical data analysis involving computers as a multi-dimensional problem provides the perspective for consideration of the use of computers in statistical analysis and the problems associated with large data files. An overall description of STATJOB, a particular system for doing statistical data analysis on a digital computer,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Analysis
Green, Thomas F.
The author raises questions in analyses of educational policy issues and suggests possible answers to them. The questions concern the nature of changes in the educational system from a given proposed policy change, the magnitude of such change, and the length of time needed to secure the anticipated magnitude of change. Competency-based education…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
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
Chareonchai, Ruang; And Others – 1980
This extensive assessment project report focuses on the Rural Secondary Schools (RSS) Project in Thailand. The background, design, rationale and objectives of the assessment are described, as are the eight phases of the study: reconnaissance; proposals; basic planning and pre-testing; data collection; analysis; academic review; final report; and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Demography, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Office of International Health (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. – 1979
Intended to assist Agency for International Development officers, advisors, and health officials in incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development, this tenth of ten volumes in the International Health Planning Methods series deals with the relationship between health and economic development. In an introduction, W.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Finance Reform, Financial Support
FOSTER, GARRETT R. – 1966
A SERIES OF THREE CONFERENCES WAS HELD TO EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A LONG-RANGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR AN UNGRADED, K-12 SCHOOL, BASED ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE ON SCHOOL MATHEMATICS. OVER 50 MATHEMATICIANS, MATHEMATICS EDUCATORS, AND PERSONS INVOLVED IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Conferences, Curriculum Research, Experimental Programs
Tucker, Charles; Hanna, Michael – 1980
Employees in different kinds of organizations were surveyed for their perceptions of their companies' client and operational problem-solving networks. The individuals came from a manufacturing firm, a community college, a telephone company, a farmers' cooperative, and a hospital. Interviews were conducted with those people reporting numerous…
Descriptors: Accountability, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Employee Attitudes
McNamara, J. E.; Johnston, T. S. – 1979
The Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Model for Competency Based Education (CBE) Assessment Programs is designed to assist state and institutional decision-makers in the cost analysis of alternative assessment strategies in CBE programs. The general model indicates stages of decision-making related to the use of various assessment strategies within the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making
Peer reviewedDavis, Gerald – Business Horizons, 1968
The approaches and activities of a firm specializing in architectural programing are discussed in detail. Topics include the definition and need for programing, needs and methods of research and data gathering, program development and structure, communications and the role of the architect. Distinctions are emphasized between the programmer and…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Programing, Building Design, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Vlahos, Mantha – 1977
A Personnel Utilization System has been designed at Broward Community College, which combines payroll, personnel, course, and function information in order to determine the actual duties performed by personnel for the amount of remuneration received. Objectives of the system are (1) to define the tasks being performed by faculty, staff, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
Foley, William Webster – 1972
Data are used from the individualized math component of an operating educational system to validate the basic assumptions underlying EDSIM 1, a computer simulation model that traces the interaction of three probabilistic elements in an educational program and produces synthetic output regarding this interaction in terms of student time in the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Analysis
Daniel, John S.; And Others – 1977
This study examines the methodologies and costs of establishing educational delivery systems using satellites currently in orbit or planned. It identifies two operational system scenarios and their predicted costs. One system, the Canadian Universities Satellite System (CUSS), is hypothesized to provide the means of transmitting audio and video…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
