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Profit, Productivity, and Honors
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Schuman, Sam – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2014
In an ominously steady progression over the past decades, education in general, higher education in particular, and even honors education have increasingly been contextualized in the realm of the marketplace. Cost/benefit analyses of colleges and universities are examined; institutions in terms of their price to consumers (students and their…
Descriptors: Productivity, Honors Curriculum, College Credits, Input Output Analysis
Utility Measures, Not Performance Measures, for Library Reference Service?
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Hernon, Peter – RQ, 1987
Identifies aspects of reference services amenable to evaluation, discusses the need for measures of service quality as well as quantity, presents modifications of current measures that meet this need, and stresses the importance of linking performance measures to library planning. (CLB)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Utilization, Input Output Analysis, Library Planning
Decision-Oriented Approaches to Program Evaluation.
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Larson, Richard C.; Kaplan, Edward H. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
Evaluation is discussed as an information-gathering process. Currently popular evaluation programs are reviewed in relation to decision making and various approaches that seem to contribute to the decision utility of evaluation (e.g. classical approaches, Bayesian approaches, adaptive designs, and model-based evaluations) are described. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
An Economic View of the Acquisition of Reasoning Skills: Agenda for Research in the Information Age.
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Brown, Byron W.; Saks, Daniel H. – Review of Educational Research, 1984
An economic viewpoint is applied to four educational issues in the acquisition of reasoning skills: (1) defining reasoning; (2) methods for producing and developing reasoning skills in the classroom; (3) how the economy allocates and values reasoning skills; and (4) future economic needs for reasoning skills. (BS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Economics
Marketing and the Political Environment.
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Hamon, Peter G. – Library Trends, 1995
Explores how to analyze various political processes which affect resource allocation to libraries. The marketing of library "products" is discussed, and practical strategies for assisting the individual librarian in political processes are offered. (AEF)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Input Output Analysis, Library Funding
Self Evaluation of Organizations.
Pooley, Richard C. – 1982
Evaluation within human service organizations is defined in terms of accepted evaluation criteria, with reasonable expectations shown and structured into a model of systematic evaluation practice. The evaluation criteria of program effort, performance, adequacy, efficiency and process mechanisms are discussed, along with measurement information…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Criteria
Public Relations Roles and Systems Theory: Functional and Historicist Causal Models.
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Broom, Glen M. – 1986
The effectiveness of an organizations's adaptive behavior depends on the extent to which public relations concerns are considered in goal setting and program planning. The following five open systems propositions, based on a "functional" paradigm, address the complex relationship between public relations and organizational intelligence and do not…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Decision Making, Historiography, Input Output Analysis