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Peer reviewedLancaster, David; And Others – Educational Management and Administration, 1983
Major literature is reviewed in the course of describing and assessing the role of operations research (OR) in educational administration. Increased use of OR approaches in education and a compounding of the present disagreement about the application and potential of OR are forecast. (MJL)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hanson, Marjorie – 1986
Reviews of relevant research on the application of operations research and statistics that appeared prior to 1980 are compared with those appearing in the early 1980s. In summary, both explicit and implicit users of mathematics in educational administration see it as a tool that essentially brings order and generalizability to administrative data.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
