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Silagyi, Dezo V.; Blanzy, James J. – Educational Technology, 1972
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Program Development
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F.; Rick, Zelda L. – Planning and Changing, 1976
Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Yeager, Garth B.; And Others – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1974
There is a pressing need for informational gathering activities designed to facilitate the decision-making activities of State and local vocational education planners. Management Information Systems are suggested as the rationally planned means whereby the information is received and transmitted. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Young, D. R. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1974
The planning of technical education programs often is a complex and involved process. Some kind of planning system helps serve as an effective method of communicating the purpose, procedure, processes, content, time, and cost to those who need this decision-making information. (Flow charts are included.) (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Programs, Program Development
Ryan, T. Antoinette, Ed. – 1975
This publication brings together seven papers exemplifying the systems approach to educational decision making. The first discusses the need for inclusion of constituent values in educational decision making strategies to properly apply systems theory concepts. In the second, which addresses systems design for problem solving in schools,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning
Download full textPearson, Robert H. – 1973
This study attempted to identify the differences in cost-effectiveness analysis methods in order to select the most appropriate one as a decision-assisting aid for instructional management. The study is organized to explore and identify what cost-effectiveness methods are being used, identify and examine the differences among these methods in an…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Stallard, Troy F. – 1970
A model of the educational system in a typical public school was constructed within the theoretical framework of a general systems theory. The model is quantified and computerized so as to provide high speed simulation. Using the model developed, one can then simulate solutions to educational problems in seconds and at modest cost. The theory…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Models
Kroepsch, Robert H., Ed. – 1972
This conference report on legislative decisionmaking in higher education is primarily concerned with the financing of colleges and universities. Management systems information is provided, and sessions were held on "How can a state tell whether or not it is getting its money's worth?" and "How to allocate funds for various segments of higher…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Governance
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
Mansergh, Gerald G., Ed. – 1969
Three major presentations made at an October 1968 conference at Hartland, Michigan, for public school administrators and university professors are "The Systems Movement and Educational Administration," by Glenn L. Immegart; "Cost-Utility Analysis and Educational Decision-Making," by Austin D. Swanson; and "Educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Boyd, Joseph D.; And Others – 1971
Higher education will be analyzed in greater depth in the future than at any time in the past. Comprehensive information systems will grow and be used for planning, budgeting, and coordination of all postsecondary education supported by public funds. As these information systems develop, educators and legislators must use the information to make…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Higher Education
Poindexter, Charles C. – High Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
Corrigan, Robert E. – 1969
Educational management programs have planned outcomes that can be achieved through alternative routes. Methods-means selection is a systematic approach to choosing the most favorable route. "Methods" refer to the specific strategies and "means" refer to the actual resources and personnel used to carry out the chosen method. This systems analysis…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Knezevich, S.J. – 1969
From the systems viewpoint, educational planning is the mechanism through which the educational system makes its goals specific and adapt its priorities, resources, and operational patterns to the changing environmental forces of its particular society. The systems-oriented administrator is a change agent and innovative strategist who delegates…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Agents, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
MILLER, DONALD R. – 1967
THIS PAPER INVESTIGATES VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR SOLVING EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS--(1) THE SYSTEMS CONCEPT, (2) THE RELIABILITY OF THE ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH THE SYSTEMS APPROACH IS BASED, (3) THE LIMITATIONS INHERENT IN THE SYSTEMS APPROACH, (4) THE HUMAN ELEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SYSTEMS APPROACH, (5) THE WAYS THE…
Descriptors: Charts, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Human Resources
