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Apple, Michael W. – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Discusses tendencies in systems management procedures that are indicative of the curriculum field's social commitments, systems language as social rhetoric, and the constitutive aspect of systems procedures as they are applied today in education. (Author/GB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Administration, Management Systems, Performance Criteria
Counelis, James Steve – 1975
The purpose of this paper is focused toward a systems understanding of the contemporary university, the American University being the data base. A general systems conceptualization called the open systems university is presented. Comprehensive and generic in character, it is hoped that the theory of the open university will be viable enough to…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Educational Administration, Higher Education
Evans, John A. – 1970
This paper explores the potential of systems analysis for the educational manager. It contains a review of systems concepts with comments on current and proper practice. An application model of systems analysis in an organizational context is provided to foster rational decisionmaking and increased skill in problem finding and solving. The…
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Rumpel, George H. – 1971
This handbook delineates the procedures recommended for the installation of a working planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS). Primary emphasis is placed on the step-by-step implementation of such a management control system. The presentation repeats the implementation cycle for the four time periods involved: (1) current year's ongoing…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Science, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
Hill, Joseph E. – 1972
This pamphlet presents a general description of the systems approach as applied to education, and gives verbal and mathematical model examples of its application in educational administration. The basic aims of the systems approach are to (1) identify major objectives of a program plan, (2) define programs that can effect the planned goals, (3)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
Pfeiffer, John – 1968
A demand for more and better education has driven educators to seek the help of systems analysis in the process of decision making. Basic to the entire systems notion is the concept of a model, a simplified but controllable version of the real world. The systems approach, once the problem is defined, is to specify the subfunctions and…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Van Gigch, John P.; Hill, Richard E. – 1971
Program budgeting is an effective tool in helping school administrators and faculty to draw up budgets which reflect their own needs and those of their clients. The "systems approach" can be used to draw up a program budget systematically. Part I outlines systems concepts and the systems approach as they can be applied to education. Also, the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Administration