This paper describes the Administrators' Needs Assessment Model (ANAM) intended to determine needed elements of staff development and administrator training. The model correlates three areas: value (the priority assigned to a particular area of knowledge by the school district), gaps (weaknesses in the individual administrator's competencies, as…

This paper is based on the assumption that in shaping academic strategies for long-range planning purposes, educational institutions must be able to gather adequate information on which to base administrative decisions. Information on how the institution has operated in the past as well as how it is currently operating are critical items for valid…

This volume contains papers presented at three 1975 meetings of the National Symposium for Professors of Educational Research (NSPER). The papers cover the scope and nature of administrative performance (including the evaluation of administrator performance and the role of the school administrator), problems and issues in the evaluation of…

Waubonsee Community College (WCC) employs electronic technology to meet the needs of its students and community in virtually every phase of campus operations. WCC's Information System Center, housing three mainframe computers, drives an online registration system, a computerized self-registration system that can be accessed by telephone from…