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Kearsley, Greg – Performance and Instruction, 1986
This final article in a series on identification of cost/benefits data, formulation of models, and data collection discusses use of cost/benefits analysis results. The following issues are addressed: how to be prepared for study objections; how to increase understanding of your study; and viewing cost/benefit analysis as an iterative activity.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Decision Making, Models
Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2005
The author presents testimony on the value of process indicators--i.e., measures of the services the education system is actually providing--for improving educational governance. He states that the case in favor of process indicators can be summarized in terms of three propositions. First, information about system performance is critical for…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Governance, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Koenig, Michael E. D.; Alperin, Victor – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes two types of program budgeting that were well received in the literature of the 1960s and 1970s. The results of a survey which examined the impact of zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) on library budgets are presented, and potentially useful aspects of program budgeting are identified. (CLB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Library Planning
Paulson, Leon – 1993
The gap between learning and assessment is apparent both in the beliefs of children, who often see no connection between the two, and in the practices of teachers, who do not choose to use the most recently developed means of assessment. This gap stems from management theory and from learning theory. Traditional management in the United States has…
Descriptors: Administration, Beliefs, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Assessment
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Tannock, James D. T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1991
Examines practical applications for the suitability of two different approaches to quality management within engineering education. One utilizes quality systems standards as typified by a specific industrial process that ensures an effective production system. The other applies the notion of total quality management emphasizing a process of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, Engineering Education