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Download full textMaynard, James M. – 1980
A work-scheduling model for Corrections Officers at State Correctional Institutions is described. This is a real-life model that was developed to deal with a problem of unacceptably large expenditures for overtime work by state prison guards. The problem involves more than 200 constraints and more than 800 variables. It is felt the model can be…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Modules
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A.; And Others – 1976
This paper discusses goal programming, a computer-based operations research technique that is basically a modification and extension of linear programming. The authors first discuss the similarities and differences between goal programming and linear programming, then describe the limitations of goal programming and its possible applications for…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSimon, Herbert A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1993
Describes the current state of knowledge about human decision-making and problem-solving processes, explaining recent developments and their implications for management and management training. Rational goal-setting is the key to effective decision making and accomplishment. Bounded rationality is a realistic orientation, because the world is too…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Barker, Bruce O.; Petersen, Paul D. – 1984
This paper explores the fault-tree analysis approach to isolating failure modes within a system. Fault tree investigates potentially undesirable events and then looks for failures in sequence that would lead to their occurring. Relationships among these events are symbolized by AND or OR logic gates, AND used when single events must coexist to…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Diagrams, Evaluation Methods
Wilde, Carroll O. – 1980
The Poisson probability distribution is seen to provide a mathematical model from which useful information can be obtained in practical applications. The distribution and some situations to which it applies are studied, and ways to find answers to practical questions are noted. The unit includes exercises and a model exam, and provides answers to…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Bruno, James E.; Fox, James N. – 1973
The demand for administrators and specialists trained in quantitative concepts and skills has increased across the last decade mainly as a result of the accountability movement. Quantitative methods can greatly assist the school administrator in certain decisionmaking processes, although it is essential that he be able to distinguish between those…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Bonini, Charles P. – 1975
The report begins with a brief examination of the role of computer modeling in management decision-making. Then, some of the difficulties of implementing computer modeling are examined, and finally, the educational implications of these issues are raised, and a comparison is made between what is currently being done and what might be done to…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Change, Administrator Education, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedGough, John – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1981
Traditional mathematics curriculum is unsuitable for gifted children. Computing, statistics, operations research, and logic are suggested as suitable new topics. (MP)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Sanders, Susan; And Others – 1978
This text provides educational administrators with a working knowledge of the problem-solving techniques of PERT (planning, evaluation, and review technique), Linear Programming, Queueing Theory, and Simulation. The text includes an introduction to decision-making and operations research, four chapters consisting of indepth explanations of each…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Ackoff, Russell L. – 1974
Three fundamental educational issues which are usually ignored in favor of more trival operating problems are identified as follows: how can the educational process be redesigned to focus on the learning, not teaching, process; how to avoid organizing education around rigid schedules and artifically quantified units of subject matter and instead…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Design, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
McLaughlin, Gerald W.; Howard, Richard D.; Balkan, Lore A.; Blythe, Elizabeth W. – 1998
This monograph, based on a conceptual model called an information support circle, describes a structured management process that can be used by higher education institutions to add value to institutional data and information. The model offers a sequence of (1) thinking about the management and use of data, (2) considering problems in providing…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Database Design, Databases, Decision Making
Axford, H. William, Ed. – 1973
These proceedings include four articles intended to familiarize librarians with many facets of operations research and how they might be applied to their institutions. The first paper provides a brief definition of operations research. The second presentation, by Ralph Shoffner, relates, in the form of concrete examples, the questions one asks…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bookkeeping, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness
Summers, Luis H. – Journal of Architectural Education, 1979
Operational gaming techniques that are permeating the architectural profession are used to: elicit user needs, represent architectural realities in the classroom, understand the rationale behind complex design decisions, and model decision environments at many levels with coarse or refined data. (MLW)
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architectural Research, Architecture, Construction (Process)
BYARS, LLOYD L.; NUNN, GEOFFREY E. – 1967
THIS ARTICLE OUTLINED THE CURRENT STATUS OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH (OR), SKETCHED THE STRENGTHS OF TRAINING EFFORTS AND ISOLATED WEAKNESSES, AND FORMULATED WORKABLE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING SUCCESS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMS. A SURVEY OF 105 COMPANIES REVEALED THAT PERT, INVENTORY CONTROL THEORY AND LINEAR…
Descriptors: Business Education, Cognitive Processes, Educational Problems, Employer Attitudes
Sork, Thomas J. – 1979
Research was conducted to develop and gather evidence of validity for a normative process model to be used by community adult education councils in establishing priority among community-level needs. The study design was based on a five-stage problem solving, systems model involving exploration, model building, design and development, validation,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Conceptual Schemes
