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Micek, Sidney S.; Arney, William Ray – 1974
This document is intended to inform NCHEMS constituents and other interested persons about the results of the Higher Education Outcome Measures Identification Study (OMIS) conducted by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems at WICHE in spring 1974. The purpose of the study was to help practitioners and researchers gain a…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Collection, Decision Making, Higher Education
Sturges, Jack; Yarbrough, Roy D. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was an association between the amount of formal social work education completed and ability of students to judge the degree of appropriateness of proposed solutions to problems frequently encountered in social work practice, and secondarily to determine whether students' judgments of problem…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Decision Making, Higher Education, Problem Solving
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. Bureau of Postsecondary Education. – 1974
Contained in this working report are the results of the Community Forum on Financial Assistance held on September 24, 1974 at Rhode Island Junior College. The two-hundred and fifteen people invited to the conference were asked by mail to rank the eight financial aid criteria in terms of importance for possible use in selecting financial assistance…
Descriptors: College Students, Conference Reports, Criteria, Decision Making
Casey, Joseph; And Others – 1981
This study presents a detailed evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), a federal program designed to assist state efforts to develop and improve public libraries, and examines the policy implications of these results as they relate to the future of federal involvement in public…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Decision Making, Federal Programs, Grants
Poppenhagen, Brent W. – 1977
This study was undertaken to establish whether and how elementary school principals differ from junior high or middle school principals and senior high principals in their perceptions of their jobs. The results indicate that, with the exception of one variable, no significant difference exists among these groups in their perceptions of job-related…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Decision Making, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Lynch, Robert C.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1970
Four items on educational and vocational decisions were analyzed from the l969 University Student Census of the University of Maryland. A random samole of l00 students from each class was studied and comparisons were made by class and sex. Results indicate that: (1) more freshmen and sophomores were undecided and uncertain about their vocational…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
Ringer, Wayne B. – 1968
Five bureaucratic characteristics of organizations determined by the perceptions of staff members in 45 Cooperative Extension Service organizations and obtained through a mailed questionnaire, were compared with organizational innovativeness in program development as demonstrated over the past five years and reported by 53 raters composed of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Decision Making, Educational Innovation, Human Resources
Vanecko, James J.; And Others – 1970
This is the statistical and methodological appendix to a report on the first part of a two phase community action program (CAP) research project. Construction of variables is covered, with attention to changes in income and minority group composition of social service agencies, increased interagency cooperation, publicity, scope of service, social…
Descriptors: Community Action, Decision Making, Demography, Disadvantaged
Cloud, Sherrill – 1979
An issues-oriented framework for selecting data to support typical state-level planning analyses is presented. Attention is focused on questions concerning the planning issues, and the general data requirements required to support a given state's analytical questions and decision requirements. State-level planning issues in postsecondary education…
Descriptors: Classification, College Planning, Data Collection, Databases
Booth, Ronald R.; And Others – 1985
In October 1984 the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed four-part questionnaires concerning collective bargaining and salaries to superintendents in 940 of the 1,006 school districts in Illinois. This report arranges the data from the 582 responses into tables providing information concerning four broad subjects: the current status of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
ALEXANDER, FRANK D. – 1961
IN 1954 CONGRESS EARMARKED FUNDS FOR A FARM AND HOME MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO OFFER INTENSIVE ON-THE FARM COUNSELING IN MANAGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING. THIS SIX-PART EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM AS IT WAS CONDUCTED IN NEW YORK STATE, PRIMARILY WITH DAIRY OPERATORS, WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE PROGRAM'S EFFECTIVENESS RELATIVE TO LESS INTENSIVE…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Budig, Jeanne E. – Lincoln University Journal on Ethnic Studies, 1982
Information reporting at traditionally black colleges and universities was reviewed, based on the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) files for 36 institutions. The objective was to determine the quality of the data submitted by seven of these institutions, and to suggest actions for improving the quality of the HEGIS information…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection