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Peer reviewedLisensky, Robert – Liberal Education, 1975
The major dilemma in educational planning today is not an inability to analyze nor a lack of cost analysis data but an inability to use this data for decision making. (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Download full textTemkin, Sanford – 1974
Although two economic methods, cost effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis, are frequently mentioned as useful tools for educational decision making, only one, cost effectiveness, has potential for making a contribution to this field. A benefit-cost analysis tries for each alternative to measure benefits and costs, which are then discounted to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Costs
Frantz, David A.; Bornstein, Irwin – School Business Affairs, 1978
Describes the basic concepts and suggested procedures for introducing zero base budgeting. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Lee, Sang M.; Van Horn, James C. – 1983
A systematic approach to the management of higher education institutions is described. The methodology combines administration by objectives (ABO), a management technique that helps academic administrators structure decisions in a systematic manner, with goal programming (GP), a decision-science tool that is ideally suited to the analysis of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning, Conflict Resolution
Webster, Duane E. – 1977
The use of analytical models and quantitative methods for both short- and long-range problem solving offer library managers an excellent opportunity to improve and rationalize decision-making for strategic and organizational planning. The first step is to identify the problems confronting the library and understand its current capabilities.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning
Knezevich, Stephen J. – The Executive Review, 1981
Interest in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) has waned over the last five years for several reasons. Early rhetoric about PPBS obscured its true character and promised more than it could deliver. Initially, few had the competencies needed to implement it. It is often wrongly believed to be solely a budgeting system. Finally,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Computer Science, Decision Making
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
Baldridge, J. Victor; Tierney, Michael L. – 1979
A nationwide longitudinal study was undertaken by the Higher Education Research Institute in Los Angeles to study the impact of Exxon Education Foundation's Resource Allocation Management Program on the 49 institutions receiving grants under the program. The focus was the behavioral consequences of management changes for administrators, staff, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
