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Cox, Richard J. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2007
Archivists have been creating finding aids for generations, and in the last three decades they have done this work via a succession of standardized formats. However, like many other disciplines, they have carried out such work in violation of systems analysis. Although purporting to have the users of finding aids systems first and foremost in…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Archives, Documentation, Information Retrieval
Florida Board of Governors, State University System, 2009
In the past three years, Board of Governors' (BOG) staff, working in cooperation with university representatives, have continued to improve the data collection and reporting capabilities for the State University System. Simultaneously, Board staff have worked to lessen the reporting burden on the universities by reducing the number of data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Knowledge Management, Management Information Systems, Statistical Studies
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Morrison, Keith – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This paper reviews school inspection systems in small states and territories (SSTs), indicating tensions, challenges and sensitivities that relate to their small size. A qualitative case study is presented of the new school inspection system in Macau, a post-colonial, small territory facing issues experienced in other SSTs. Macau's inspection…
Descriptors: Inspection, Case Studies, Educational Quality, Quality Control
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Taylor, Lloyd J., III; Poyner, Ilene – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the problem of trained employee retention in a highly competitive labor market for a manufacturing facility in the oilfields of West Texas. Design/methodology/approach: This article examines how one manufacturing facility should be able to retain their trained employees by using the logic of Eliyahu M.…
Descriptors: Employees, Skilled Workers, Labor Turnover, Competition
Newcomb, Amelia – School Administrator, 2008
The need for organizations to adapt nimbly in a fast-paced global society is a given. But ask any education leader or business person how to do that in a way that truly drives the organization forward and one may get silence--or worse, a weary look that bespeaks a grievous experience. Leaders know all too well that the gap between a new idea and…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Organizational Theories, Leadership Effectiveness, Interviews
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Grignon, Michel – Economics of Education Review, 2008
I investigate the role of education on health, using country-level data and the production frontier framework suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess performances of health care systems. I find that the impact of human capital on health is much smaller than suggested by the WHO frontier model, and the relationship exhibits…
Descriptors: Health Services, Human Capital, Role of Education, Systems Analysis
Bader, John B. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
With a solid GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements, and an acceptance letter from an excellent college, it seems that all of your hard work in school has paid off. Now what? What can you expect from college life, and how can you get the most out of it? This book answers these questions to help you excel in college. Deans at America's top…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Deans, Post High School Guidance, College Readiness
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald; Lai, Cheng-Fei – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2010
This technical report provides a summary of feedback from teachers, administrators, and support personnel who used the easyCBM progress monitoring and benchmark assessment system during school year 2009/2010. Data were gathered from semi-structured focus groups conducted during the 2010 easyCBM August Institute at the University of Oregon. Results…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Focus Groups, Research Reports, High School Students
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Hong, Jun Sung; Cho, Hyunkag; Lee, Alvin Shiulain – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2010
School shooting cases since the late 1990s have prompted school officials and legislators to develop and implement programs and measures that would prevent violence in school. Despite the number of explanations by the media, politicians, organizations, and researchers about the etiology of school shootings, we are not united in our understanding…
Descriptors: Violence, Systems Analysis, Systems Approach, Risk
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Mawhinney, Thomas C. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2009
It is possible to define an organization's culture in terms of its dominant behavioral practices and their molar consequences, from the shop floor to the executive suite (Redmon & Mason, 2001). Dysfunctional and potentially deadly practices (for the organization as a whole) can be "latent." They often go undetected until their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Banking, Leadership Effectiveness, Organizational Culture
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Martin, Vance S. – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
There have been many attempts to understand how the Internet affects our modern world. There have also been numerous attempts to understand specific areas of the Internet. This article applies Immanuel Wallerstein's World Systems Analysis to our informationalist society. Understanding this world as divided among individual core, semi-periphery,…
Descriptors: Internet, Influence of Technology, Science and Society, Social Change
Ichu, Emmanuel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Software quality is perhaps one of the most sought-after attributes in product development, however; this goal is unattained. Problem factors in software development and how these have affected the maintainability of the delivered software systems requires a thorough investigation. It was, therefore, very important to understand software…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Investigations, Computer Software, Systems Development
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
Invariably, whenever "Exchange" surveys center directors about their major frustrations, near the top of the list for non profit directors appears, "working with a board of directors." Boards are either viewed as much too involved--meddling in day-to-day matters that should not be their concern--or too little involved--requiring too much…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Board Administrator Relationship, Role Perception, Organizational Theories
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Mihalic, Maria T.; Ludwig, Timothy D. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2009
Behavioral Systems rely on valid measurement systems to manage processes and feedback and to deliver contingencies. An examination of measurement system components designed to track customer service quality of furniture delivery drivers revealed the measurement system failed to capture information it was designed to measure. A reason for this…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Behavioral Science Research, Delivery Systems, Systems Analysis
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Freeze, Ronald D.; Alshare, Khaled A.; Lane, Peggy L.; Wen, H. Joseph – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
This study utilized the Information Systems Success (ISS) model in examining e-learning systems success. The study was built on the premise that system quality (SQ) and information quality (IQ) influence system use and user satisfaction, which in turn impact system success. A structural equation model (SEM), using LISREL, was used to test the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, User Satisfaction (Information), Structural Equation Models, Information Systems
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