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Ryan, Suzanne K. – Educational Leadership, 1980
The Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) program revolves around a series of tests regularly administered to students with immediate feedback to students and teachers. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives, Program Evaluation
Halverson, Don E. – 1977
Drawing on materials from a variety of sources, the authors of this guide survey the advantages and disadvantages of management by objectives (MBO), describe common errors made in setting objectives and in operating an MBO system, and provide samples of MBO planning calendars. The emphasis in most of these materials is on MBO as a means of…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Management by Objectives
Christensen, Douglas D. – 1978
The planning and evaluation method (Management by Objectives/Results) briefly described in this booklet is intended to help leaders and participants at all levels in school activity programs. MBO/R provides for goal setting, objectives identification, identification of resources, allocation of responsibility and time, and, finally, evaluation.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Extracurricular Activities, Management by Objectives
Newberry, Allan J. – Education Canada, 1980
Management-By-Objective (MBO) is an eight-step process which allows a school system to state its objectives clearly and evaluate its achievements. MBO aids individual administrators and improves communication within the school system. (SB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Alabama Education Study Commission, Montgomery. – 1978
The Alabama Education Study Commission conducted a five-year project to find adequate measures of accountability for schools. The result, developed, implemented, and tested in 11 school districts in Alabama, was a Program Management and Budgeting (PMB) system combining elements of zero-base budgeting and management by objectives. PMB has the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives
Educational Systems Associates, Inc., Austin, TX. – 1975
The purpose of this manual is to describe critical techniques and components that should be considered in a comprehensive management system. The various sections of this manual describe in detail the concepts and skills necessary for developing and implementing a management by objectives (MBO) system. The manual should provide a vehicle to the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives, Management Systems
Gephart, William J., Ed. – 1975
Six papers from a Phi Delta Kappa symposium on educational accountability begin with an examination of accountability both as a goal and a process for achieving a goal, particularly from the state education agency perspective. The second paper, prepared from the vantage point of the teacher, asks questions about the development of accountability…
Descriptors: Accountability, Conferences, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment
Pennsylvania State Consortium. – 1976
This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Rural Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1975
Since the size of the small school presents difficulties in implementation of in-service programs, program development should be carefully considered. Initially, faculty support must be gained via: (1) careful needs assessment; (2) solicitation and utilization of outside consultants (from universities, the Department of Public Instruction, and/or…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Macro Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1989
This report addresses what the Laboratory Review Panel believes to be the most critical issues the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) must consider in the 1990 recompetition for Educational Research Laboratories. For each set of issues, recommendations are offered regarding desirable OERI policy. The following issues and panel…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Wagner, Ivan D. – 1975
Management systems have been adapted for educational administration in response to the need for quality of educational opportunity, collective bargaining, school district consolidation, decreasing enrollments, accountability laws, limited financial resources, and participatory decision-making. Management systems adapted, not adopted, from business…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Morgan, James M. – 1983
This report summarizes recent Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools efforts to develop systematic approaches to generating information for school and district administrators. The result of these efforts is a School-Based Information System (SIS) that provides the district's 57 elementary and 22 secondary schools with information in such areas as…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Demonstration Programs, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Arnoff, Steven M. – 1978
This document provides a description of the Metropolitan Planning Project (MPP), its objectives, strategies, and an evaluation of its implementation in the Boston area. In order to encourage the voluntary elimination, reduction, and prevention of minority group isolation in elementary and secondary schools in Boston, the project focuses on two…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1978
This volume, the fourth of a five-volume series, contains three onsite case studies of organization development (OD) selected from a sample of 76 school districts. The purpose of the case studies was to analyze in detail different types of OD programs and their use. Each case study represents a different OD focus: case study A involves a survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Boards of Education