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Hammond, Allen – 1970
Education and training systems are complex organizations of facilities, instructors, equipment, routines, and students. Because of this complexity, mathematical models can be used effectively to explain the behavior of educational systems and to assist in making decisions relative to better design and operation, and improved cost-effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Education Turnkey Systems, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1971
This model is a computerized mathematical simulation of the manner in which educational decisions and patterns of school operation affect costs. The design shows how teacher salaries, school building design parameters, and decisions regarding class size and instructional materials expenditures contribute to total school costs. The sophisticated…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Grotsky, Jeffery N.; And Others – 1973
The Peer Evaluation Program (PEP) has been instituted by the Division of Special Education, Pennsylvania State Department of Education, to allow intermediate units an opportunity to continuously improve their programs. The advantages of the PEP system are: (1) it is a self-improvememt system of program development; (2) PEP allows local autonomy as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Bruno, James E.; Fox, James N. – 1973
The demand for administrators and specialists trained in quantitative concepts and skills has increased across the last decade mainly as a result of the accountability movement. Quantitative methods can greatly assist the school administrator in certain decisionmaking processes, although it is essential that he be able to distinguish between those…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
White, Bayla F.; And Others – 1971
This report describes efforts to develop and implement a technique for using information on school performance as a tool in improving planning and management within a large urban school system. The Urban Institute and the Atlanta schools are attempting to demonstrate a technique for grouping schools on the basis of their student composition,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Educational Administration, Educational Diagnosis
Manning, Charles – 1976
This report contains findings of a followup study of the impact of the District Review of Vocational Education (DROVE) on 19 secondary school districts and four regional occupational programs and centers (ROP/Cs) in California reviewed during 1974-75. (The followup study of the impact of DROVE is the third phase of DROVE, a three-phased,…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Management Information Systems