The article highlights the peculiarities of models of education systems management in the EU and Ukraine. It has been proved that effectiveness of the education process is determined by managerial culture, which characterizes a manager's professional image. Special attention has been paid to finding the right balance between centralization and…

Many policy systems and education systems have grown more complex in the last three decades. Power has moved away from central governments in different directions: upwards towards international organisations, sideways towards private institutions and non-governmental organisations and downwards towards local governments and public enterprises such…

Provides academic administrators and researchers with a critical review of available tools in management techniques; a structure for considering possible analytical projects to undertake; and the steps that should be taken by administrators to ensure proper organization, planning, and control of management science efforts. (Author/DEP)

This publication brings together seven papers exemplifying the systems approach to educational decision making. The first discusses the need for inclusion of constituent values in educational decision making strategies to properly apply systems theory concepts. In the second, which addresses systems design for problem solving in schools,…

This report provides some basic guidelines for planning and establishing a consortium. Systems analysis was used to study 5 consortia, determine their objectives, identify applicable system variables, and ascertain the contribution each variable must make to achieve organizational objectives. The consortia were the Central States College…

This paper demonstrates a process for investigating the economic and budgeting impact of educational innovations on the educational systems where they are introduced, based on the assumption that the money to finance educational innovations will have to be shifted from existing programs or other innovations. To illustrate the use of his analytical…

Presents the conceptualizations (systems analysis) on which a particular task was modeled, details the way in which the theoretical framework was translated into practice, reports briefly on the methodology employed, and demonstrates the success of the analytic tool adopted. (Author/IRT)

Uses chaos systems concepts to analyze a case study of rapid growth and conflict in a southwestern school district. Difficulties arising from the need for very precise initial measurements, data forms adaptable to pattern modeling, and precise meanings for chaotic systems concepts limit chaotic theory's application to educational administration…

A system approach is a process for effectively and efficiently achieving a required outcome based on documented needs. Three major types of system approaches have emerged from a variety of problem-solving techniques. The design-process mode builds a system to meet determined and substantiated needs. The solution-implementation mode uses various…

This project has four major objectives: (1) the design and implementation of a computer-based planning and budgeting system oriented toward educational programs, (2) the design of a management information system focusing on educational programs, (3) a general design for a system to evaluate educational programs, and (4) the integration of the…

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…

An orientation to management information systems (MIS) is offered which presents information about MIS in the context of public education and suggests some considerations that should be taken into account in designing and operating such systems. MIS is defined as a set of operating procedures that act as a control system to automatically provide…

Systems theory and its application to educational administration are discussed in this paper. An extensive literature review concludes that systems analyses are based on the concept of interdependence and on the assumption that the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts. Applications to educational administration include model building,…

This book provides a brief review of many concepts and practices that are currently being explored and utilized in educational management systems. It is intended to aid teachers and administrators who seek a general understanding of management systems, as well as school board members and laymen who are interested in the systems approach to…

The Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Model for Competency Based Education (CBE) Assessment Programs is designed to assist state and institutional decision-makers in the cost analysis of alternative assessment strategies in CBE programs. The general model indicates stages of decision-making related to the use of various assessment strategies within the…