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Saenz-Armstrong, Patricia – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2021
For any labor market to function properly, clear information is needed to guide decision making; its absence invariably leads to less than optimal decisions and inefficiencies. While the broader labor market is riddled with imperfect information, the teacher labor market is particularly vulnerable--largely for the lack of the most basic…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Decision Making, State Departments of Education
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Baum, Sandy; Cunningham, Alisa; Tanenbaum, Courtney – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
The level of educational attainment in the United States is a central focus of public policy. The Obama administration, some states, large national foundations, and other organizations have set near-term goals to increase the number of Americans with college degrees. Achieving these goals is likely to involve a combination of increasing…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Goal Orientation
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Huff-Eibl, Robyn; Miller-Wells, John; Begay, Wendy – Journal of Access Services, 2014
This article describes the process and role frontline access and public service staff play in needs assessment and evaluation of user services, specifically in understanding the voice of the customer. Information includes how the University of Arizona Libraries have incorporated daily data collection into the strategic planning process, resources…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Development, Decision Making, Data
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Kekahio, Wendy; Baker, Myriam – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2013
Using data strategically to guide decisions and actions can have a positive effect on education practices and processes. This facilitation guide shows education data teams how to move beyond simply reporting data to applying data to direct strategic action. Using guiding questions, suggested activities, and activity forms, this guide provides…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Data Analysis, Strategic Planning, Decision Making
Michelau, Demaree K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Political science offers rich explanations for how different types of organizations that are focused on public policy decisions (e.g., boundary organizations, interest groups, policy networks (or communities), and think tanks) influence public policy processes (Cash, Clark, Alcock, Dickson, Eckley, Guston, Jager, and Mitchell 2003; Guston 2001;…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Political Science, Information Sources
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Kracke, Nancy – Journal of School Public Relations, 2009
It is tempting to assume that we know what our parents, our community, and our employees want from our schools. It is comforting to think that we know what they support. It is also dangerous. This article encourages school systems to let go of assumptions and to start asking the important questions that will lead school boards and administrators…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, School Districts, Information Sources, Stakeholders
Posey, Ellen I.; Sylvan, Donna L. – 1979
The selection of appropriate data sources for institutional research is discussed. It is suggested that the provision of timely, accurate information for administrative decision-making depends on the researcher's ability to determine which data are relevant to the problem. This is of particular concern for institutional researchers because they…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Mayer, Hanna – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1986
Describes three basic approaches to needs assessment--problem identification, problem analysis, and problem verification--and assesses them in terms of their potential utility to users in business and educational settings as measured by their estimated time requirement, accuracy, and cost. Needs assessment data collection resources and techniques…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Costs, Data Collection, Decision Making
Harris, Adrian H. – 1973
Higher education is now and will increasingly be faced with requests for data from a variety of sources to which it is accountable. Such data may ultimately be used in decision-making regarding the appropriation of public and private resources. Comparisons of costs and other measures among institutions will be the byword. Thus it is important that…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Decision Making
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Dietrich, Marie C. – Journal of Allied Health, 1981
Describes four types of decisions concerning admissions policies for allied health programs: (1) refining applicant evaluation criteria; (2) identifying information sources whose data can be quantified; (3) transforming these data into measurable form; and (4) conducting evaluation of admission criteria. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Admission, Data Analysis
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Atwood, Virginia A. – Social Education, 1985
Social studies instruction using a variety of data sources engages elementary school children in relatively autonomous collecting, organizing, and evaluating of data--processes necessary for exercising sound judgment and taking appropriate action. (RM)
Descriptors: Data, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Making
Ranck, Edna Runnels – Child Care Information Exchange, 1986
Provides tips for collecting and storing information about child care and children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Day Care
Veres, Helen C. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1980
Gathering information is futile without implementation of programs based on the findings. Data from a single needs assessment study can provide useful information to decision makers at several levels. Studies of a general population of adults provide data for state, regional, and local continuing education practitioners. (CT)
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Data Collection
Gubasta, Joseph L.; Kaufman, Norman – 1976
The need for management information by college and university administrators is becoming more intense. Recognizing that computerized information systems have not been able to satisfy this growing need, an alternative approach to the preparation of management information is described. This approach places the needs of decision makers before those…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
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Holznagel, Donald C. – AEDS Journal, 1983
Existing evaluation data sources for educational software need to be supplemented by local judgments since evaluation processes differ depending on the ultimate user and purpose for which the information is gathered. School districts should select evaluation models and modify them for local need based on utility, feasibility, propriety and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Collection, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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