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Iatrellis, Omiros; Fitsilis, Panos; Lampakis, Dimitrios; Kameas, Achilles – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Time to degree and graduation are paramount concerns in higher education today and have caught the attention of educators, policy makers, and researchers in recent years. Delays in student flow through learning pathways may result in undesired consequences and this fact has made educators and the public start to regard timely degree completion as…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Time to Degree
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Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Larsen, Graeme D.; González-Cruz, Maria C. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
Many engineering projects fail to meet their planned completion dates in real practice. This is a recurrent topic in the project management literature, with poor planning and controlling practices frequently cited among the most significant causes of delays. Unfortunately, hardly any attention has been paid to the fact that the classical…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Student Projects, Scheduling, Engineering
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Simons, Jacob V., Jr. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2017
The critical path method/program evaluation and review technique method of project scheduling is based on the importance of managing a project's critical path(s). Although a critical path is the longest path through a network, its location in large projects is facilitated by the computation of activity slack. However, logical fallacies in…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Program Evaluation, Scheduling, Program Administration
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Conant, Donald D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author's goals in this exercise were to use an Excel project to teach students about the effects of changing states of nature on critical path emergence as well as compare the impact of the PERT beta and triangular distributions on project completion times. Previous research into the PERT (program evaluation and review technique) beta…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Spreadsheets, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Evaluation
HITCHCOCK, R.P.; BLISS, SHIRLEY – 1964
INFORMATION IS PRESENTED FOR STUDENT USE IN LEARNING PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT), A PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USED TO PLAN, CONTROL, AND EVALUATE PROJECTS. THE MATERIAL WAS PREPARED IN THE IBM DISTRICT 15 EDUCATIONAL CENTER TO BE USED IN VOCATIONAL CLASSES. THE TECHNIQUE WAS DEVELOPED DURING 1958 BY THE NAVY FOR APPLYING…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Evaluation Methods, Program Administration, Program Costs
Kravetz, Nathan, Ed. – 1970
This IIEP seminar focused on administrative, management, supervisory, and decisionmaking techniques that are useful in the educational planning process. The techniques studied included: delphi, program evaluation and review technique (PERT), and program planning and budgeting systems (PPBS). Various experts presented papers on these techniques,…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Phipps, Maurice, Ed.; Hayashi, Aya, Ed. – Wilderness Education Association, 2006
The Wilderness Education Association (WEA) helps people enjoy and protect our nation's most precious resource: Our wilderness areas. They have been training and certifying outdoor leaders around the world for nearly 30 years, teaching students safely and effectively to lead groups in the outdoors without harming the environment. In addition,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Outdoor Leadership, Recreational Activities, Recreational Programs