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Bo Yan; Thomas Aberli – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
The annual budgeting process is a valuable opportunity for districts to systematically examine both resource use and programming. They can then use the findings to optimize resource use and improve program efficacy in ways that will lead to increased student achievement. Bo Yan and Thomas Aberli discuss three root causes for districts' inability…
Descriptors: Budgeting, School Districts, Resource Allocation, Expenditures
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Ecton, Walter G.; Dziesinski, Amberly B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
In this paper, we employ Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to consider institutions' shifting goals, priorities, and constraints, and to explore the nature of change at colleges and universities in the United States. By exploiting annual changes in institutional budget decisions over a 29-year period, we seek to understand the extent to which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Budgets, Decision Making
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Matthew T. Marino; Eleazar Vasquez III – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2024
This manuscript presents an exploratory mixed-methods case study examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of generative pretrained transformers (GPTs) and large language models on special education administrative practices in one school district in the Northeast United States. AI holds tremendous potential to positively…
Descriptors: Special Education, Administrators, Artificial Intelligence, Data Use
Kevin Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This narrative inquiry examines the experiences of K-12 Title 1 Urban Public-School principals to understand their involvement in the process of school-level budgeting and their efforts to incorporate principles of equity into their budgetary decisions. I recorded the challenges faced by principals when making practical decisions equitable. This…
Descriptors: Principals, Resource Allocation, Budgeting, Decision Making
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F. M. Hollands; R. Shand; B. Yan; S. M. Leach; D. Dossett; F. Chang; Y. Pan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
School and district leaders make annual decisions about investing their budgets in a multitude of educational programs. Policy directives set expectations for investing in programs that show evidence of improving student outcomes. However, evaluating many simultaneously-implemented programs under typical school operating conditions is challenging.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, School Funds, Budgets
Jared E. Littman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School district leaders can have a vast influence on school improvement and student achievement. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of school district leaders with budget allocation and decision-making responsibility for literacy and the factors that determined their budget allocation decisions. This study…
Descriptors: School Districts, Leadership, Educational Resources, Budgeting
F. M. Hollands; R. Shand; B. Yan; S. M. Leach; D. Dossett; F. Chang; Y. Pan – Grantee Submission, 2022
School and district leaders make annual decisions about investing their budgets in a multitude of educational programs. Policy directives set expectations for investing in programs that show evidence of improving student outcomes. However, evaluating many simultaneously-implemented programs under typical school operating conditions is challenging.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, School Funds, Budgets
Stella Tonye Whyte – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Unreliable and poor-quality data is a significant threat to governmental institutions because of its devastating impact on nations' social and economic well-being. Managers in government organizations require reliable data to inform economic planning and decision-making. Grounded in the theory of total quality management, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Integrity, Advocacy, Foreign Countries
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Tirol-Carmody, Kristina; Kardash, Nadia; Chang, Karin; Ecker-Lyster, Meghan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This paper discusses the key findings from a qualitative case study examining the implementation of an activity-based cost management model (ABC model) at a large community college. In a climate of fiscal uncertainty, the college adopted this model with the goal of improving budgetary decision-making. The paper examines faculty and administrators'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Budgeting, Barriers
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Pham, Nhung Thi Tuyet – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to share quality process experience from a US comprehensive university to use both direct (participation rate and assessment quality) and indirect assessment measures (assessment survey) to evaluate the quality process. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method design was used to evaluate the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Organizational Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Institutional Evaluation
OECD Publishing, 2017
This report on the funding of school education constitutes the first in a series of thematic comparative reports bringing together findings from the OECD School Resources Review. School systems have limited financial resources with which to pursue their objectives and the design of school funding policies plays a key role in ensuring that…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Resource Allocation, Governance
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Philip S. Chong; Ming Chen; Xuemei Su – International Journal of Educational Management, 2014
Purpose: Resource allocation is an important area of strategic planning in any organization, including higher education. In comparing two case examples of a college's efforts in shared governance in allocating budget to its five departments, the purpose of this paper is to show the importance of a college's awareness and understanding of team…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cooperation, Governance, Budgeting
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Archbald, Doug – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2016
Objective of the Case--There is a large volume of theoretical and "how to" literature on professional learning communities (PLCs), but little documenting the challenges of implementation and even less on the challenges of system-wide implementation of PLCs. This case is about the role of the central office in initiating and supporting…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Districts, Communities of Practice, Central Office Administrators
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Saunders, Laura – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter explores the relationship between strategic planning and budgeting. It describes how community college leaders can use strategic and foundational plans (academic, facilities, technology, and financial) to drive budgets and resource allocations in support of institutional goals and objectives. Finally, it identifies challenges of doing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Budgets
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Lyons, Lucy Eleonore; Blosser, John – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
The "Comprehensive Allocation Process" (CAP) is a reproducible decision-making structure for the allocation of new collections funds, for the reallocation of funds within stagnant budgets, and for budget cuts in the face of reduced funding levels. This system was designed to overcome common shortcomings of current methods. Its philosophical…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Administration, Budgeting, Resource Allocation
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