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Oliver, Damian – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2010
Complexity is a feature common to all vocational education and training (VET) governance arrangements, due to the wide range of students VET systems caters for, and the number of stakeholders involved in both decision making and funding and financing. In this article, Pierre and Peter's framework of governance is used to examine complexity in VET…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, Decision Making, Participative Decision Making
Forbes, Roy H. – Educational Technology, 1974
A discussion of how cost-effectiveness analysis provides a conceptual framework for analyzing the cost and effectiveness of educational programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Guidelines, Program Budgeting
Kirwan, William E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
As an enterprise that relies heavily on state funding, public higher education has long seen its support rise and fall with the boom-and-bust cycle of the economy. This chapter examines how the University System of Maryland repositioned itself as a state system able to thrive in an era of permanently diminished resources and perpetually escalating…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Organizational Theories, Organizational Change, Cost Effectiveness
Cavanaugh, Alfred D. – 1969
There have been four objectives to this preliminary study on cost analysis procedures in higher education: to examine and evaluate materials on cost analysis recently gathered; to explain the basic techniques of cost studies and the uses to which they are put; to identify, if possible, the specific value of cost analysis as an administrative tool;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration
Rogers, Donald D. – 1972
While the demand for increased educational productivity is clear, the methods for achieving it are largely undetermined. Cost effectiveness techniques have proved to be valuable tools for commercial organizations, but the relevance to educational problems is less than clear. Theory suggests that these techniques can be useful for dealing with…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods

McGuffey, C. W. – CEFP Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities, Educational Planning

Levin, Henry M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
The focus in this book is on steering a course between rigorous definitions and theory and applied attempts to measure costs and benefits in the real world. As an introduction to the concepts underlying cost-benefit analysis, this volume is well-written and comprehensive for a book of its length. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Data Analysis
Michelson, Stephan – 1970
This publication is a discussion of the concept of an educational production function, a mathematical formulation of the relationship between inputs and outputs in education. A description of how a production function can direct decision making toward economic efficiency precedes a theoretical discussion of the nature of actual estimation. Several…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Wilkinson, Gene L. – AV Communication Review, 1973
Author distinguishes one type of cost evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis, from other types of cost evaluation, illustrates its use as a decision-making tool, and discusses a few of the problems associated with its application in the instructional development process. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Development, Educational Methods
Mason, Robert M.; And Others – 1977
This document presents a research effort intended to improve the economic information available for formulating politics and making decisions related to Information Analysis Centers (IAC's) and IAC services. The project used a system of IAC information activities to analyze the functional aspects of IAC services, calculate the present value of net…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Educational Development
Priest, Bill J.; Pickelman, John E. – 1976
The first section of this report defines and discusses the concept of productivity in education, reviews methods used to identify community college outputs and conversion factors, and reviews possible approaches to productivity management. The second section describes the step-by-step procedure used by the Dallas County Community College District…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency
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
Gant, Charles R. – 1977
To aid in the development and validation of a cost analytic model for Air Force on-the-job training (OJT), this report reviews the literature on the economics of education and training through mid-1976 inclusively. The first two of the four parts in the document provide narrative discussions of the literature, and the last two contain the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Annotated Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research
Landis, Daniel; And Others – 1970
The least understood of complex systems is that which produces educated people. Superficially, many key elements of a manufacturing organization are part of the system: a product, product tolerance limits, methods for assessing product deviation, and a feed-back system for making compensatory adjustments. In layman's terms these elements are:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Prochnow, Harold G. – 1973
The audit report was made in compliance with the contractual agreements, legal prescriptions, and official directives under the provisions of Title VII of Public Law 89-10, as amended, for the establishment and operation of bilingual education programs. The audit report (June 12, 1973) is on the Bilingual Education Program (in its 4th year of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
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