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Download full textBrown, Bettina Lankard – 1997
Quality system awards offer blueprints for assessing quality in vocational education as well as in business and industry. The three most prestigious awards recognizing quality improvement in business and industry are the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, Deming Application Prize, and ISO 9000 Registration. When comparing standards for the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Job Skills, Postsecondary Education
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1992
Total Quality Management (TQM) establishes business and industry standards and techniques that ensure the quality of products leaving and reaching firms through continuous actions rather than one final inspection. Deming, Juran, and Crosby, who initiated the process, share a common theme of participatory management. Management participation and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Strategies
Chaffee, Ellen Earle; Sherr, Lawrence A. – 1992
This brief report summarizes a longer document with the same title. Many colleges and universities, in responding to public demand for higher education and the external challenges it creates, are employing Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques to improve quality, increase productivity, and decrease cost. The quality improvement process itself…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, College Administration, Cooperative Planning, Educational Demand
Klauke, Amy – 1988
This digest discusses the issue of performance standards for school superintendents. School districts are discovering that developing performance standards for administrators can be cost effective, reduce crisis management, set and maintain direction, and give the community a standard for measuring school success. Several aspects of the issue on…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Boards of Education
Freed, Jann E.; And Others – 1997
This digest, based on a larger report of the same title, summarizes principles for improving quality in higher education institutions. Emphasis is on the effect of the principles when they are used holistically to create a culture of academic excellence. The quality principles are based on the conceptual framework of total quality management (TQM)…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Decision Making, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Branch, Robert M.; Kim, Dohun; Koenecke, Lynne – 1999
This digest is intended to help teachers select good resources to use in their instruction by providing a checklist to evaluate online educational materials. The following major topic areas to consider when evaluating World Wide Web-based materials for use in instructional settings, as well as sub-questions in each area, are outlined: (1) Judge…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
