Recognizing the need for all college officials to make better use of their time, the president of Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College sent a two-item questionnaire to all 55 administrators and non-teaching professionals at the college. He asked them to list in priority order: (1) the three activities or problems that diverted their time from…

Institutional research is an adaptive tool. It aids decisionmakers in assessing an institution's efficiency, and in determining the appropriateness of the institution's goals in relation to social needs. However, given the limited resources available for planning, choices must at times be made as to whether to concentrate analytical studies on…

Ways suggested for principals to categorize tasks according to importance in order to allocate time more effectively. (Author/MLF)

Describes two factors affecting the results of manual and online information retrieval: the manner by which classification codes and key words are chosen, and the degree to which papers with comparable contents are accorded similar keywords. Of 14 alternative search strategies selected, the best consisted of using classification codes coupled with…

The study reported is the first in a series of investigations designed to empirically test the hypothesis that calculators reduce quantitative working time and increase computational accuracy, and to examine the relative magnitude of benefit that accompanies utilizing calculators compared to manual work. (MN)

Considerations for a classroom lighting system include the quality of the system in terms of improved seeability, operating efficiency, and energy savings. (Author/MLF)

One of the keys to good library planning is to keep service points contiguous whenever possible, thus saving in personnel costs. (Author/MLF)

Introduces a computer program for school bus routing. (MLF)

This article contains an efficiency analysis checklist to assist principals to control sources of time loss and to save time when performing routine daily activities and motivational, interpersonal activities. (Author/DS)

Academic/administrative data processing is centralized in one computer facility at East Tennessee State University. Students check computer printouts listing course availability, fill out one schedule card, present it to an operator at a computer terminal, and are able to register for classes in less than a minute. (Author/MLF)

Suggests ways for superintendents to assess instructional photocopying needs and costs and adopt workable, cost-effective procedures and guidelines. Evaluators of copy content need to consider teaching objectives, appropriateness, conceptual enrichment, alternative approaches, style, grammar, public relations effects, and possible copyright…

The differences between evaluation of academic units and evaluation of administrative units are discussed, and the development and implementation of a procedure for administrative unit evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is described. (MSE)

This third and final article on effectiveness and efficiency in industrial training contains a number of suggestions on how to improve training effectively and describes how they are going about it in the Netherlands. (Author)

The adoption of the business efficiency model by school administrators during the early decades of this century and its ramifications for teachers' work has been well chronicled. In this article, teachers themselves recall their responses to "efficiency" in Pittsburgh schools. (LHW)

This discussion of methods of selecting and training present and future staff in business and industry emphasizes importance of the incorporation of senior management's goals and objectives into the process. An example of a Functional Skills Rating Form for use in interviewing is included. (LRW)