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Miskel, Cecil – Executive Review, 1982
Because organizational effectiveness of schools is difficult to define, a model is needed to explain the complexities of the concept. Two models offer some promise. One is the goal model, which defines effectiveness as the degree to which organizations meet or surpass their goals (either official or operational). The other is the system resource…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Role
Conners, Dennis A.; Reed, Donald B. – Executive Review, 1983
Business and industry have exerted a strong influence on public schools and school administration, especially on assumptions about the school setting and its implications for administrator behavior. Schools have been assumed to be bureaucratic organizations in a stable environment, which implies that administrators should be leaders in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Educational Environment
Hill Top Spectrum, 1985
Five newsletters examine a variety of topics dealing with learning disabilities. Topics include the following: ways to help learning disabled (LD) seniors plan for higher education, transitional college programs, the changing role of neurologists in the field of LD, the place of math in the education of LD students, instructional reasons for LD…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Journal and Dental Education, 1979
The manual for the development of general practice residency programs in dentistry is designed to be used in three regional workshops to train individuals representing institutions who wish to develop such programs. The first of three major sections in the manual reviews the historical background of general practice residency programs. In the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clinical Experience, Cost Effectiveness, Dental Schools
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Ridge, John William – 1978
Suggested are concepts and ideas for organizing for institutional research so that it might become a legitimate and separate entity within higher education administration. The following three-way categorization of institutional research is advocated: institutional studies; management analyses; and periodic management reporting. The role of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, College Administration, Educational Research
Profiles, Programs, and Products, 1983
Oaklea (Oregon) Middle School provides an innovative program of instruction to district students in grades 5-8. To facilitate this individualized approach, the school is divided into four smaller schools in which teachers and students spend four years together as students proceed through the instructional program. An important feature of this…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Individualized Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
Cuthbert, Marlene – 1981
This monograph is a history of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA), which is jointly owned by private and public mass media of its region and independent of both governments and foreign news agencies. It is proposed that CANA may provide a unique model of an independent, regional third-world news agency. Sections of the monograph examine (1) CANA's…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
Pritchard, Roger – 1977
One of a series of Unesco technical information reports, this paper describes the process of setting up an international information network that would disseminate information to developing nations about educational policy and planning. Written in English and French, the paper surveys the general context in which a network has to operate, presents…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Educational Development
Bregman, Ralph – 1979
One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper presents an educational planning model which incorporates citizen involvement at the local level and provides a more responsive and efficient vocational education system. In the first section techniques are discussed for encouraging community participation, such as general…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
Morrison, James L. – SRHE International Newsletter, 1990
Administrators and scholars from 10 countries attended a global change seminar at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The purpose was to introduce a systematic and rigorous planning methodology to enhance success in moving forward into a complex, turbulent, and uncertain future. The focus of the methodology was the identification, analysis, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, College Administration, Futures (of Society)
Pillinger, Barbara Baxter; Kraack, Thomas A. – OSA Research Bulletin, 1980
The concept and implementation of long-range planning for student affairs is considered, and a simple model for planning that could be useful to chief student personnel officers is presented. Several issues are considered in this process: the conditions and premises crucial to planning, a systematic approach to planning, the locus of the planning…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Environment, College Planning, Decision Making
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1980
The papers presented cover three general themes: modern education and curriculum; the legacy of educational thought; and origins and issues in U.S. educational development. Part 1 begins with "The 'New Social Studies' and Curriculum Innovation: The Amherst Project Experience, 1959-1972" (C. E. Samec) which describes the project's…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Education, Community Organizations, Curriculum Research
Fowler, Sue – ARIS Resources Bulletin, 2002
Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs) are incorporated organizations and groups whose mission is to facilitate local partnerships for the purpose of improving young people's education and training outcomes in Australia. LLENs are supported by grants from Australia's Department of Education and Training. Of the 31 LLENs currently existing…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Change Agents, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning