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The Role of the Quality Enhancement Plan in Engendering a Culture of Assessment
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Loughman, Thomas P.; Hickson, Joyce; Sheeks, Gina L.; Hortman, J. William – Assessment Update, 2008
During the past two decades, colleges and universities have used best practices from corporate management such as total quality management, strategic planning, management by objectives, benchmarking, data warehousing, and performance indicators. Many institutions of higher learning now have adopted comprehensive and multifaceted approaches to…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Institutional Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Total Quality Management
God vs. Golem?--Project USHER: Uniting MBO and Humanness
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Hitt, William D. – Community College Review, 1975
Project USHER (Uniting Science and Humanness for Educational Redesign) is a management model which unites the concepts of management by objectives and participative management. This article reviews the rationale for such a model, describes the model, and outlines steps needed for successful implementation of this systematic approach to educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives
Managing Change with Accountability: A Challenge for Educators.
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Streshly, William A.; Newcomer, Leland – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
School board and community have only two ways to achieve accountability: by prescribing teaching methodology and establishing expensive supervisory superstructure to enforce it; or by establishing desired learning outcome standards and products and requiring professional staff to develop plans to achieve them and criteria to evaluate results.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Community Involvement
Shared Accountability: A Pilot Program for Improving Education in the District of Columbia Public Schools through Community and Professional Involvement.
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District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1975
The goals of this project are to assist schools in developing community ranked educational goals, to assess needs (i.e., to determine how well community ranked educational goals are being met), and to determine who among a number of groups are responsible for carrying out the goals as viewed from the local schools level. The concept of shared…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Educational Assessment, Educational Development
Development and Implementation of an Educational Program Audit (EPA) Management System to Evaluate the Instructional Programs in the Capital School District.
Goate, Edward W. – 1977
Public demands for accountability in school systems led the Capital School District in Dover, Delaware, to begin investigating management systems in 1974. This investigation led to the adoption of a management by objectives system in 1975 and the addition of program budgeting in 1976, providing the district with the tools of administrative…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Role, Community Attitudes
Seven School-Based Planning Projects in One Hundred and Seventy-Five New York City Elementary and Secondary Public Schools: A Comparative Analysis.
Gross, Thomas; And Others – 1982
This report describes and assesses seven school-based planning projects to raise student achievement levels in the New York City Public Schools. Based on the principles of organizational development, the projects are: 1) the Renewal Program, a planning partnership between several high schools and the Economic Development Council, a nonprofit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Change Agents, Change Strategies