This paper identifies World Wide Web site characteristics and attributes and groups them in a hierarchy. The primary goal is to classify the elements that might be part of a quantitative evaluation and comparison process. In order to effectively select quality characteristics, different users' needs and behaviors are considered. Following an…

A discussion by an educator, an energy consultant, an architect, and a superintendent of facilities planning on how schools can reform maintenance and operations procedures towards efficient fuel use. (Author/DN)

Market theory assists in analyzing educational finance and zoning problems. A well-structured market can allocate resources efficiently with a minimum of administrative cost. Education finance and zoning involve potential markets. Discusses how efficiently and equitably a market solution would distribute resources in these two areas. (Author/JF)

In this case study of implementing the program approach to budgeting, the author explores factors responsible for its limited success in school settings. (Author/DN)

Improving school effectiveness is not a realistic policy goal for the '80s; the goal of maintaining effectiveness at reduced cost levels (i.e., improving efficiency) should be substituted. New technology is creating the potential for reducing costs in education and its adoption may help to overcome traditional political resistance to cost-based…

The business model of the university, emphasizing productivity and efficiency, is insidious because it treats knowledge as a product rather than a process. Learning to ask questions is more important than receiving answers, and the special contribution of the university is the excellence of its process. (Author/MSE)

The effectiveness and efficiency of decision making in Canadian universities are discussed in relation to the same processes in British and German institutions, in relation to other complex systems, and in terms of institutional autonomy and current pressures toward greater external control. (MSE)

Experience in 12 Colorado school districts suggests that implementation of a four-day school week can offer several benefits, including savings in fuel costs, decreased absenteeism, improved efficiency in activity-oriented classes, increased staff development time, and a flexible "fifth day" for extracurricular activities. (PGD)

Administrators should examine the role and limitations of their budgeting systems and consider overemphasis on control of spending rather than efficiency or effectiveness, limitations on cash-based budgeting, need for information on operating costs, and the short range and fragmented nature of most budgets. (MSE)

Literary training for translators becomes palatable and tangible when given in a single, three-semester-hour course, combining all languages and taught in English. The course explores literature synthetically, via translation, rather than analytically as in a more traditional literature course. (Author/MSE)

Examined whether different levels of task complexity result in variations in group decision making. Groups (N=7) discussed problems varying in levels of complexity. Findings suggested that group decision making is a cyclical process with the number of cycles affected by task complexity. (RC)

Findings of a study conducted at four university libraries support Hage and Aiken's theory that, while the relationship between the structural variability complexity and rate of innovation is positive, it is negative for centralization, formalization, and stratification. The methodology, with some modifications, was shown to be transferable.…

Offers guidelines on planning for and conducting smooth, efficient, and effective board meetings. (WD)

Offers guidelines on conducting board meetings efficiently while allowing for public participation. (WD)

A battery of four tasks which measure the interhemispheric transfer of information was utilized to test the hypothesis that there will be an increase in efficiency of interhemispheric transfer with increasing age. (MP)