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Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Swanborn, Machteld S. L. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
School inspections are expected to have an impact on data use and improvement of schools. Schools are expected to generate data (e.g., self-evaluation reports and student achievement results) as part of the inspection process. This process, in turn, also generates data (e.g., inspection reports) for school improvement. The high-stakes context in…
Descriptors: Inspection, Accountability, Evaluation Utilization, Inferences
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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
Bowen, Howard R. – NACUBO Professional File, 1977
Academic planning in higher education is strongly influenced by business management theories and practices. The author questions the usefulness of this approach because the nature of higher education differs from the nature of a profit-making business. However, rational planning to achieve efficiency is relevant if efficiency is not confined to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Landers, Jacob – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
The current concept of accountability -- defined to emphasize educational results, the allocation of responsibility for results, and the consequences to those held responsible -- represents a powerful force for positive educational change. It may yet produce a fundamental reconstruction of public education. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
White, Robert L. – 1977
As our society moves increasingly from an era of affluence to one of scarcity, the evaluation and assessment of publicly supported services will become even more crucial and necessary to ensure that public resources are being expended in the most effective manner. Evaluation of library service effectiveness is defined in this paper in terms of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Libraries
Farquhar, John; And Others – 1971
The functional design of the information system proposed for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is detailed in this report. The design specifies input data, processing, file formats, and report formats. The implemented system will provide information in four general areas: personnel, program/budget, educational results, and community…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Design, Education
Michael, Mary Ellen; Young, Arthur P. – 1974
This manual was conceived as a reference guide for Illinois' 18 library systems to use in their long-range planning and evaluation program. Section 1 of the manual explains the planning model: Context Input Process Product (CIPP). CIPP was selected as a coherent adaptation and modification of many previous planning and design methods: systems…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Guides
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
Wallace, Richard C., Jr.; Shavelson, Richard J. – 1970
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of systems analysis as applied to the development of a program evaluation plan. A brief review of selected concepts in evaluation theory (Lee J. Cronbach; Michael Scriven; Robert Stake; Daniel Stufflebeam), a description of general systems theory, the development of a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Farquhar, John – 1972
Six reports concerning design of an information system to aid the Los Angeles city schools in implementing accountability and program budgeting are summarized. Extensive interviewing and system analysis led to focusing decisionmaking and accountability on the individual school principal, unlike the present centralized decisionmaking and resource…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Cohn, Elchanan; Millman, Stephen D. – 1974
This report explores some techniques that could assist educational managers in their attempts to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. Following a review of the literature on input-output analyses in education and a description of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment Program (the basis of the present study), an empirical…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Grossbard, Stephen I. – 1975
The planning, programming, budgeting system (PPBS) is an instrument to help policy-makers assign priorities and allocate resources. It does not seek to computerize what is essentially a political process, nor is it intended that the statisticians and cost accountants take over functions that properly belong to the political decision-maker. PPBS is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Bruno, James E.; Fox, James N. – 1973
The demand for administrators and specialists trained in quantitative concepts and skills has increased across the last decade mainly as a result of the accountability movement. Quantitative methods can greatly assist the school administrator in certain decisionmaking processes, although it is essential that he be able to distinguish between those…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Scott, J. Glenn, Ed.; Ducharme, David J., Ed. – 1972
The six papers in this publication discuss how reasonable planning processes can be established and how budgeting procedures can be related to the wider planning process. In the first selection, K. George Pedersen establishes the current context of educational planning and decisionmaking with emphasis on economic implications, and he outlines…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Budgeting, Case Studies
Gaynor, Alan Kibbe – 1998
This book is directed toward students in organizational-theory and problem-analysis classes and their professors, as well as school administrators seeking to examine their problems and policies from new perspectives. It explains and illustrates methodology for describing, documenting, and analyzing organizational problems. Part I, "Methodology,"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Bureaucracy
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