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Montgomery County School Board, Norristown, PA. – 1971
This manual was prepared to provide local school districts with a model to follow in implementing a local planning-programing-budgeting system (PPBS). Section I (chapters 1-4) gives the basic concepts and overall design of a PPB system for local districts. Section II (chapters 5-7) describes computations used in a semiautomated PPBS version,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Databases, Information Systems, Intermediate Administrative Units
Steele, Sara M. – 1971
In order to determine the value of cost-benefit analysis to adult educators, this paper discusses the concepts involved and how they are being operationalized in adult education. The specific technique is discussed within the general framework of systems approach. A survey of current usage reveals that it has thus far been limited primarily to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Bibliographies
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 1970
This document is a compilation of the presentations made at the 1970 National Exemplary Institute, a conference designed to serve as a guide for exemplary projects being undertaken across the country. Presentations included in the document are: (1) "The Characteristics of This Changing Age in Our Vocational Education" by Luis Morton, (2) "The Role…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Models
Coombs, Philip H. – 1969
This report is one of a series primarily intended for those engaged in or preparing for educational planning and administration--especially in developing countries--as well as for those government officials and civic leaders seeking a more general understanding of educational planning and its role in overall national development. This booklet…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Hatley, Richard V.; Miskel, Cecil G. – 1973
Demand articulators called for changing and strengthening programs in educational administration at the University of Kansas. As a result of activities over a 2-year period, the existing program was discarded and a new one adopted reflecting an interdisciplinary leadership and decisionmaking rationale conceptualized with a systemic framework. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Evaluation, Educational Administration, Graduate Study
Mansergh, Gerald G., Ed. – 1971
Management by objectives, a systems approach to managerial leadership, can be of substantial benefit to organizations because it helps solve key problems in organizational administration. As a system, it (1) defines what is expected by specifying objectives, (2) elicits teamwork by identifying common goals, (3) programs work by setting terminal…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators
Educational Technology Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. – 1973
Containing articles published in recent issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume in the review series provides an introduction to the systems approach. Included are articles which cover management demands and prerequisites, systems concepts and computers, personnel training, accountability, systems models for educational functions…
Descriptors: Accountability, Computers, Educational Objectives, Educational Technology
BSIC/EFL Newsletter, 1972
The major systems development projects of the 1960's were concerned primarily with facility problems at the elementary and secondary levels. Rapidly increasing enrollments coupled with changes in both curriculum and in teaching methods created a demand for more flexible facilities that could be constructed rapidly and inexpensively. The success of…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Systems, Campus Planning, College Buildings
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1970
This report summarizes the results of a program initiated in July of 1967 that was based on the findings and recommendations of the First Phase Report, which was completed in June of 1967. Seventeen different school districts participated in systems programs, and 20 new schools and additions were completed during the 1968-69 school year.…
Descriptors: Bids, Construction Costs, Construction Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Bratten, J. E.; And Others – 1968
The design and initial trial phase of a project to develop a computer-based budget planning system for school districts are reported in this document. From a teletype at the district office linked to a computer at System Development Corporation, a user (administrator) can retrieve specific portions or summaries of a prestored description of his…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgeting, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
Thayer, Lee; And Others – 1973
Memoranda 17 through 21 are included in Volume 8. (The general nature of the memorandum and related documents are described in SO 005 892). Daniel E. Costello offers a selective review of the literature relating to educational decision processes. Tom Deats provides an essay on reflections and comparisons of knowledge utilization in education…
Descriptors: Communications, Creativity, Decision Making, Educational Innovation
Brown, Donald V., Comp. – 1971
Based on a compilation of concepts and materials from various sources, this manual outlines a systems approach to the evaluation of local vocational education programs. Local evaluation is viewed as a team effort by those responsible for improvement in the system and is to be carried out as a continuous process. Major sections of the manual are:…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Evaluation Methods, Guides
Kidder, David E.
Designed to assist vocational education program planners as well as researchers in making manpower projections, this report attempts to sort out and classify forecasts and their underlying models. In reviewing this subject, major sections of the document were devoted to: (1) The Forecasting Process, (2) Unspecified Techniques, (3) Specified…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Data Analysis, Employment Projections, Labor Needs
Borgen, Joseph A.; Davis, Dwight E. – 1971
As part of the Phase II report of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project, this document focuses on the structuring of a model for occupational curriculum development and evaluation. Thus, a questionnaire was developed to identify: (1) the tasks and various activities within the institutions, (2) some of the key curriculum changes that have…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Formative Evaluation
Powell, E. C. – 1971
The purposes of the Teacher Education Project Study at Jarvis Christian College were to investigate the relevance for small developing colleges of the new models for elementary education and to stimulate the adoption of the systems approach to institutional development in general. A 12-member Project Task Force composed of Jarvis faculty,…
Descriptors: Developing Institutions, Educational Development, Educational Programs, Elementary Education
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