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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2023
This guide is designed for use by school, district, and state education agency staff to improve the effectiveness of efforts to collect and use discipline data, including reporting accurate and timely data to the federal government. It explains the importance of collecting discipline data, identifies key considerations for agencies implementing…
Descriptors: Discipline, Data Collection, Data Analysis, School Districts
Perry, Angela – Project on Student Debt, 2019
California has long been a national and global leader in developing and maintaining quality higher education options, as well as in providing financial aid and consumer protections for Californians who access that education. However, although California's colleges and the state government do collect, receive, and report a great deal of data, these…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Access to Information, Wages, Data Collection
Burns, Tracey, Ed.; Köster, Florian, Ed. – OECD Publishing, 2016
What models of governance are effective in complex education systems? In all systems an increasing number of stakeholders are involved in designing, delivering, and monitoring education. Like our societies, education systems are increasingly diverse regarding students, teachers, and communities, as well as the values and identities we expect…
Descriptors: Governance, Models, Educational Practices, Educational Research
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Huntington, Clare; Scott, Elizabeth – Future of Children, 2015
The U.S. legal system gives parents the authority and responsibility to make decisions about their children's health care, and favors parental rights over society's collective responsibility to provide for children's welfare. Neither the federal government nor state governments have an affirmative obligation to protect and promote children's…
Descriptors: Child Health, Legal Responsibility, Health Promotion, Parent Responsibility
Merkel-Keller, Claudia – 1984
The stages of the policy process are examined and explained in terms of the decision making framework. The policy process is comprised of four stages; policy analysis, policy formation, policy decision, and political analysis. Political analysis is the performance of the market analysis needed for a decision. The political weight, rather than the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Political Influences
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Henrion, Max; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
The purpose of this evaluation of DEMOS, a system for decision modeling and uncertainty analysis, was to identify some generic issues of interest in the design of such information systems, obtain insights about the causes of problems in their use, and to suggest hypotheses about how to deal with them. (EM)
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Decision Making, Evaluation
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Firestone, William A. – Educational Researcher, 1989
Uses an ecology-of-games metaphor to highlight the messiness and discontinuities in the policy process, the variety of games played by different people for different reasons, and the linkages between those separate games. Suggests that educational research can also be conceived as a game that is related to various policy games. (FMW)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Ecological Factors, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Christenson, James A.; Coleman, A. Lee – Rural Sociology, 1985
Presents a history of editorial policies for "Rural Sociology" since 1936. Discusses the role of editors and financial life of the journal. Finds continuing themes of articles center on how to develop scientific knowledge of rural life and how to use that knowledge to solve rural problems. (LFL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Support, History
Carver, Fred D. – 1985
Educational research and evaluation have had less impact on policy and decision making in education than hoped for, since research and evaluation represent fundamentally different kinds of endeavor than policy and decision making do. Evaluation has more impact than research because it is a more administrative activity and is more integral to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Losak, John; Morris, Cathy – 1983
One promising avenue for increasing the utilization of institutional research data is the informal action research model. While formal action research stresses the involvement of researchers throughout the decision-making process, the informal model stresses participation in the later stages of decision making. Informal action research requires…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Administration, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Schrodt, Philip A. – 1986
A "world model" is constructed where precedent-searching is one of the primary driving mechanisms. The simulation assumes that nations in the system are utility maximizers but that they have relatively primitive decision mechanisms and that they are strongly influenced by their previous short-term successful behavior and the short-term…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economics, Foreign Policy, Global Approach
Pasch, Marvin; Greene, Bert I. – 1984
Social values, educational philosophy, politics, and decision-making are examined in a case study of political influence involving the National Diffusion Network (funded by the Department of Education), which supports the dissemination of exemplary curriculum programs meeting high priority needs. In 1982, 87 directors of ongoing programs were…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Decision Making, Educational Philosophy, Federal Aid
Saupe, Joe L. – 1990
The purposes and nature of institutional research are described as well as its role in institutional governance and of the contributions it can make to the functioning of postsecondary institutions. The first section in the booklet discusses the nature and purposes of institutional research by describing several forms of research and comparing and…
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Governance, Higher Education
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Creighton, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 1983
Following a literature review on policy development and decision-making--their participants, processes, innovative directions, and contexts--this study develops a series of analytical questions exploring the aspects of curriculum innovation. (JW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Environment, Educational Policy
Chaffee, Ellen Earle; de Alba, Renee – 1983
A bibliography on strategic management is presented to assist both practitioners and researchers. Criteria for inclusion were as follows: (1) general in scope, providing introductory information on a variety of subtopics within strategic management; (2) indications that the work is becoming a classic (i.e., frequent citations by other authors);…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Business Administration, College Administration, College Environment
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