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Krivtsov, Artem I.; Polinova, Ludmila V.; Ivankina, Marina S.; Chubarkova, Elena V.; Prokubovskaya, Alla O. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the problem under investigation due to constant changes in the external business environment requires organizations to establish a mechanism to manage change and increase the impact of these changes. The purpose of the article is to analyze the change management concepts and their applicability in the strategically important…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Information Management, Productivity, Influences
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Blankenberger, Bob; Phillips, Alan – Educational Policy, 2016
The completion agenda is the dominant theme in higher education policy in the United States today, and one of the primary strategies advocated in the agenda is performance funding in budgeting for public institutions. Illinois is one example of a state that has attempted to implement performance funding as a means of directing the behavior of…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Budgeting
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Terpstra, Jennifer L.; Best, Allan; Saul, Jessie; Leischow, Scott J. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in North America and Quitlines are one of the primary cessation resources available to assist tobacco users with quitting. Implementation of best practices is important to the success of quitlines, but unfortunately, it is a complex and elusive process often…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Institutional Characteristics, Program Implementation, Smoking
Manno, Michelle; Jacobs, Erin; Alson, Julianna; Skemer, Melanie – MDRC, 2014
The Youth Villages Transitional Living program is intended to help youth who were formerly in foster care or juvenile justice custody, or who are otherwise unprepared for adult life, to make the transition to independent living. Youth Villages, which serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled young people, operates a number of programs in…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Implementation, Independent Living, Daily Living Skills
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McGuinn, Patrick – Educational Policy, 2012
This article offers an analysis of the origins, evolution, and impact of the Obama administration's Race to the Top (RTTT) competitive grant program and places it in the broader context of the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act and the shifting intergovernmental relations around education. RTTT is fundamentally about two things: creating…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Incentive Grants
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Ismail, Noor Azizi – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how activity-based costing (ABC) technique can be applied in the context of higher education institutions. It also discusses the obstacles and challenges to the successful implementation of activity-based management (ABM) in the higher education environment. Design/methodology/approach: This paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Software, Information Systems, Foreign Countries
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Miller, Christopher L. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act increases pressure on schools and districts to use standardized state test data. Seeking to learn about the process of turning accountability data into actionable information, this paper presents findings from three case studies of small to medium sized school districts. The study examines the flow of state science…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Science Tests, Accountability, Data
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
Mattern, Janet Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Children grow and change more rapidly during the first eight years of life than any other time in their life span. Progression through the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental stages varies for each individual child. Children with atypical development experience a wide spectrum of variability in their development. Over the past…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Early Intervention, Program Implementation, Special Needs Students
Mateso, Peter E. E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this concurrent triangulation mixed methods study was to understand the status of succession planning and management (SPM) efforts of the subject university as perceived by the fulltime academic and fulltime administrative staff. Four research questions guided this study: (1) how do fulltime academic staff and fulltime…
Descriptors: Promotion (Occupational), Organizational Culture, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
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Thonhauser, Theresa – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
The implementation of the ISO 9000 international quality management system in education has become a debated trend. Building on the literature, this study did not attempt to end the debate over ISO 9000 in education but looked at the problem with a new perspective. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that relate to the time required…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standard Setting, Standards, Program Implementation
Bauldry, Shawn; Hartmann, Tracey A. – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
This report, the third derived from research out of the National Faith-Based Initiative (NFBI), examines how faith-based organizations designed and implemented mentoring programs for high-risk youth. Focusing on four NFBI sites (in the Bronx and Brooklyn, NY; Baton Rouge, LA; and Philadelphia, PA), the report takes up three key questions: How were…
Descriptors: Mentors, Volunteers, Youth Opportunities, Youth Problems
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McDonald, Jane – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
This study investigated one school district's transition from a junior model to a middle school philosophy. Numerous documents were examined and individual interviews and focus group discussions were analyzed to reconstruct the process and strategies used to facilitate the institutionalization of this complex change effort. Participant voices…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Middle Schools