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Singer, Marc G.; Welborn, Cliff A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
The authors sought to determine whether topics researched by academicians in the field of operations management were aligned with the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) employers were seeking from potential employees. Twenty-eight research topics were identified in the operations management literature and were compared to the KSAs derived…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Organizational Effectiveness, Management Systems, Employers
Tonyan, Holli A. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
Eco(logical)-cultural Theory suggests that a daily routine results from individuals adapting cultural ideas to the constraints of a local context or ecology. Using Ecocultural Theory, this research examined family child care providers' descriptions of daily activities and overall approach to understand cultural models. The results highlighted a…
Descriptors: Child Care, Cultural Context, Models, Educational Practices
Zziwa, Gertrude – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
The organisational structure of universities follows particular models that distinguish them from other learning institutions. This research investigated the effect of the organisational structure on the management of universities in Uganda using a sample of 361, 44% of whom were members of academic staff, and the rest contained university top…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Governance, Universities
Dimopoulos, Kostas; Dalkavouki, Katerina; Koulaidis, Vasilis – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This study aims at investigating primary school principals' work on a daily basis in order to understand the ways in which the centralized educational system affects their practices. Four typical cases of principals were selected and asked to keep daily records for a period of four months. Data from logs were complemented with data collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Bird, James J.; Dunaway, David M.; Hancock, Dawson R.; Wang, Chuang – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between superintendent leadership and the operational processes of school improvement. School district superintendents (N = 226) from six southeastern states were surveyed concerning their leadership authenticity and school improvement practices. Descriptive statistics, analyzes of…
Descriptors: Leadership, Superintendents, Best Practices, Correlation
DeAngelis, Karen J.; Brent, Brian O.; Ianni, Danielle – Journal of Education Finance, 2011
A spate of school shootings in the U.S. has prompted policymakers to address the public's growing perception that our schools are unsafe. As education policymakers continue to press for additional security initiatives, it is important to understand the costs borne by school systems for these programs. Thus far, the scholarly literature is silent…
Descriptors: School Security, School Surveys, Costs, School Safety
DePaolo, Concetta A.; Robinson, David F. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
In this paper we present time series data collected from a cafe run by business students at a Midwestern public university. The data were collected over a ten-week period during the spring semester of 2010. These data can be used in introductory courses to illustrate basic concepts of time series and forecasting, including trend, seasonality, and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistical Data, Statistical Analysis, Statistics
Yousef, Darwish Abdulrahman – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of a number of factors such as high school major, high school score, gender, Stat105, Maths I, Maths II grades, and grade point average (GPA) on students' academic performance in an introductory operations research (OR) course at the department of Business Administration--College of…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Peterson, Kristy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The capability of organizations to operate on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is reliant on ITIL process measurements. Appropriate ITIL process measurements help ensure desired outcomes, enable corrective actions to take place prior to process failure, and direct process activities towards continuous improvement.…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Correlation, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques
Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed.; Kolar-Begovic, Zdenka, Ed.; Kolar-Super, Ruzica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
The universities and faculties which educate teachers of mathematics for teaching pupils/students of any age group from pre-school age to higher education carefully monitor and compare valuable results of this research, detect the areas in which the mathematical achievements of pupils should be improved at the national level and propose the ways…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
BRYANT, EDWARD C.; AND OTHERS – 1967
ASSOCIATIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO A DOCUMENT FILE ARE CONSIDERED AS A MEANS FOR IMPROVING RETRIEVAL. A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF A GENERALIZED MISMATCH MEASURE WAS CARRIED OUT AND IMPROVEMENTS IN RETRIEVAL RESULTING FROM PERFORMING ASSOCIATIVE REGRESSION ADJUSTMENTS ON DATA FILE WERE EXAMINED BOTH FROM THE THEORETICAL AND…
Descriptors: Correlation, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
LAND, KENNETH C. – 1967
THIS REPORT PRESENTS A DISCUSSION OF 2 TECHNIQUES WHICH CAN BE USED TO REPRESENT AND INTERPRET MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL SYSTEMS WHEN IT IS FELT THAT THERE ARE CAUSAL RELATIONS BETWEEN SOME OF THE VARIABLES. THE BASIC TECHNIQUE IS PATH ANALYSIS AND THE OTHER IS ITS EXTENSION THROUGH THE USE OF RECURSIVE SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS. THE ANALYSIS IS…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Linear Programing, Mathematical Applications
Warren, Simon; Apostolov, Apostol; Broughton, Kevin; Evans, Ruth; MacNab, Natasha; Smith, Penny – Child Care in Practice, 2006
What might family support services look like in the reconfigured children and family services after the Children Act? This is the question this article attempts to explore by drawing on evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund in England. The article describes common features in two case-study sites that might indicate the…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Prevention
International Business Machines Corp., White Plains, NY. Data Processing Div. – 1967
This bibliography on the tools and applications of operations research, management science, industrial engineering, and systems engineering lists many entries which appeared between 1961 and 1966 in 186 periodicals and trade journals. Twenty-six texts in operations research are also listed along with an indication as to which of 37 techniques or…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computers, Correlation, Critical Path Method
Fowler, William J., Jr., Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1999
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) commissioned the papers in this publication to address advances in measuring education inflation and adjusting for it, as well as to examine the emergence of a new focus on school spending, rather than school district spending, as well as new, private sources of funding for public education, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Indexes, Investment, Productivity