To be more useful in educational planning, educational research must be (1) more broadly conceived to incorporate tasks and techniques from disciplines outside of education, (2) more systematic in the sense that both research and development must be more programmatic in nature, and (3) reoriented so that the results of research, whether called…

The increasing magnitude of the enterprise of education, the rapid growth of knowledge, the changing educational administrative requirements and challenges, and the development of new educational programs to match the range of students' diverse interests and capacities--all these challenges call for rapid upgrading of the quality and technique of…

Universities are becoming increasingly complex and multifunctional and there is an urgent need for a systematic approach to institutional planning which is capable of treating a total program, rather than a fragment. In this report, the need for planning, elements of comprehensive planning, and a methodological approach to university planning are…

Examines the complex combination of behavioral and technical factors which determine the successful introduction and continuous use of management by objectives. A previous article attempted to examine significant variations in the reasons why British educational organizations have used MBO, the apparent leadership styles, and the speed and…

Presents descriptions of the management, systematic, and open-access curriculum development models to identify the decisionmaking bases, operational processes, evaluation requirements, and curriculum control methods of each model. A possible relationship among these models is then suggested. (Author/DN)

The documents on university management listed in this report were collected by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. The documents are divided into 3 sections: (1) higher education planning, management and organization; (2) institutional management techniques applied to specific institutions; and (3) reference documents. Within these…

Academic planning in higher education is strongly influenced by business management theories and practices. The author questions the usefulness of this approach because the nature of higher education differs from the nature of a profit-making business. However, rational planning to achieve efficiency is relevant if efficiency is not confined to…

An evaluation instrument, utilizing the systems analysis approach for self evaluation, is designed for use by project directors and staff in assessing existing Title III environmental and outdoor education projects in New Jersey. The evaluation instrument was first developed about two years ago. The original instrument was presented to persons…

This review surveys documents, previously announced in RIE, that are concerned with the (1) development of planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) for educational planning, (2) models of PPBS implementation, (3) specific applications suitable for libraries, and (4) bibliographies available on the topic. PPBS decisionmaking models enable…

The purpose of this conference working paper is to provide conferees and others with a draft document to be examined and to elicit constructive suggestions for the preparation of a final draft for recommendation to the U.S. Office of Education. The final draft will be field tested by New Jersey Title III environmental and outdoor education…

During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…

This report presents (1) details of a program for educational administration by objectives and (2) the results of such a program developed by the Virginia State Department of Education to upgrade the quality of education in the public schools of that State. Administration by objectives is a systematic approach to education planning using…

This Catholic college for women in St. Joseph, Minnesota, is adopting components of systematic institutional development in its planning and budgeting. Four programs are integrated: institutional research, the management information system, management development, and management planning. (LBH)

Network-based management procedures serve as valuable aids in organizational management, achievement of objectives, problem solving, and decisionmaking. Network techniques especially applicable to educational management systems are the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and the critical path method (CPM). Other network charting…