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Download full textPiele, Philip – r & d perspectives, 1969
This literature review examines 16 selected documents processed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Administration that deal with the application of several kinds of planning systems to educational programs. Particular attention is given to planning-programming-budgeting systems (PPBS), program evaluation review techniques (PERT), and various…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Literature Reviews
PDF pending restorationMiller, Donald R. – 1968
This document analyzes the planning, developing, and implementing of fundable Title III, ESEA projects, by integrating the following five strategies: (1) A planning development and implementation strategy, (2) a risk-gain motivation strategy, (3) a problem-solving strategy, (4) a quality assurance and evaluation strategy, and (5) a management…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Educational Planning, Models, Problem Solving
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1971
ERIC abstracts on educational planning, announced in RIE through December 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "critical path method,""educational planning,""operations research," and "program budgeting." The following information is presented for each document: Author, title, place of publication, publisher,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Clearinghouses, Critical Path Method
Judy, Richard W.; And Others – 1968
In illustrating how systems analysis can aid university planning, a report is presented of the early results of the application of systems analysis to problems of planning in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Analysis is reported of various alternative policies concerning enrollment, curriculum, involvement of teaching, hospitals,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Critical Path Method, Educational Planning, Input Output Analysis
Cochran, Leslie H. – J Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
Ragan, Stephen W. – 1976
Two systematic ways of analyzing and planning the components of a program or project, both used extensively by industry and government, are discussed in this paper. The methods are Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) Networks and Critical Path Method (CPM) Arrow Diagrams. The purposes of this paper are (1) to explore the need for…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Diagrams, Educational Planning, Long Range Planning
Buckner, Allen L. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Administration, Computers, Critical Path Method, Decision Making
Alameda County School Dept., Hayward, CA. PACE Center. – 1966
This ESEA Title III report describes fault tree analysis and assesses its applicability to education. Fault tree analysis is an operations research tool which is designed to increase the probability of success in any system by analyzing the most likely modes of failure that could occur. A graphic portrayal, which has the form of a tree, is…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Critical Path Method, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Alkin, Marvin C.; Bruno, James E. – 1970
Any general systems approach has five basic elements, which serve as the tasks for the researcher using systems analysis. The five are (1) the objectives, (2) the alternatives, (3) the costs, (4) the model (or models), and (5) the decision rule. With these five steps, the researcher should be able to specify the objectives, select alternatives,…
Descriptors: Costs, Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Educational Planning
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
