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Download full textMaryland State Department of Education, 2009
It is hard to overestimate the significance of the master planning process. The process is one of the most salient strategies that the Maryland State Department of Education utilizes for improving student achievement and closing the achievement gap. Until recently, many local school systems (LSSs) treated planning as a local endeavor that merely…
Descriptors: School Districts, Master Plans, Strategic Planning, Annual Reports
Peer reviewedCovaleski, Mark A.; Dirsmith, Mark W. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
By demystifying traditional rational accounting perspectives, the work of Ginsberg (TM 508 964) offers a basis to develop notions of accountability in relation to meaningful work processes. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Accountants, Accounting, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedGinsberg, Pauline E. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
Premature application of quantitative indicators formerly used for individual assessment and research to bureaucratic decision making can produce side effects that are dysfunctional in nature. In order to illustrate this phenomenon, the author reviews a general literature and utilizes examples form mental health care. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Peer reviewedMcCleary, Richard – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
In support of Ginsberg's theory (TM 508 964), a third corollary to the Conservation of Discretion Law is proposed: Where possible, the worker will use a statistic not as a statistic but, rather, as an instrument to reduce the workload. Three illustrations are presented: grade point averages, crime rates, and recidivism rates. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Crime, Decision Making, Employee Responsibility
