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Kinnison, Charles J. – 1978
An outcomes orientation is examined as the dominant focus for formulating improvements in a college's planning, management, and evaluation (PME) system. Outcomes are seen as individual (produced by college personnel or students), program related, or institutional. An outcomes orientation to PME has the advantages of relating to the quality of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, College Administration, Community Colleges
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Dunn, Pierre – 1975
It is possible to remain faithful to the general intentions of management by objectives (MBO) while boiling it down to four major points. First, MBO places the emphasis on results rather than on resources or the ways in which resources are utilized. Second, responsibility for achieving these results is shared jointly by the superior and his…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1992
This booklet presents information on how total quality management can be applied to school systems to create educational improvement. Total quality management offers education a systemic approach and a new set of assessment tools. Chapter 1 provides a definition and historical overview of total quality management. Chapter 2 views the school…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Mityataki, Glenn K.; Gray, Robert G. – 1975
This document is intended to provide a systematic aid for planning and managing academic units (schools, colleges, departments, or divisions) within an institution. It consists of a comprehensive set of techniques and procedures that can be used by academic unit administrators to examine the internal operations of their units--their functions,…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Rees, Ruth – 1985
This paper documents the development of a conceptual framework to ensure that the necessary steps are undertaken for effective policy implementation. These steps include the articulation of policy, the translation of policy into procedures, the operationalizing of those procedures into rules, and then both internal (formative) and external…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Cohn, Elchanan; Millman, Stephen D. – 1974
This report explores some techniques that could assist educational managers in their attempts to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. Following a review of the literature on input-output analyses in education and a description of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment Program (the basis of the present study), an empirical…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Sallis, E.; Hingley, P. – 1991
This paper discusses the increasing interest in quality assurance in British education including its measurement and management through the introduction of a quality assurance system. The reasons and benefits of beginning a quality assurance system are discussed, and questions of what constitutes quality, whether it is quality in fact…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Colleges, Cultural Influences, Educational Assessment
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1976
COPES (Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System), established in 1971 as a cooperative undertaking of community colleges, is today the recognized system for evaluation of occupational education in California community colleges. In its fifth year of operation (1975-76) an assessment study focused on the basic system. Key objectives…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Howard, Eugene R. – 1974
It is possible for a district to develop a system of accountability that defines appropriate roles for lay citizens, pupils, teachers, administrators, and the board of education. It is not necessary for accountability to be imposed from the State level through mandates requiring Statewide assessments, competency-based teacher certification plans,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education