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Download full textPetry, John R. – 1992
The field of education has been slow to recognize the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept. This resistance may result from entrenched management styles characterized by hierarchical decision-making structures. TQM emphasizes management based on leadership instead of management by objective, command, and coercion. The TQM concept consists of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Efficiency
Logan, Joyce; Briscoe, Melissa – 1994
The Kentucky Tech Prep Evaluation system was developed to establish and maintain a database and data analysis for assessment of the effectiveness of tech prep programs in achieving specific goals and in helping schools improve cognitive and noncognitive performance as reflected in the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Barauski, Sue, Comp. – 1995
Illinois received one of six 2-year National Institute for Literacy grants to create statewide interagency staff development systems for literacy. After a staff development plan has been developed/implemented, a needs assessment process is developed that entails the following five steps: determine indicators of program quality and develop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Evaluation Criteria
Tenore, Elizabeth J.; Dunbar, Shirley E. – 1979
At Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) in Massachusetts, the Learning Center is the heart of the college's instructional program. The Center houses programs for credit at all academic levels, including some classroom work for 40% of the faculty. The Center is a delivery system for individualized, personalized curriculum at both remedial and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, English Instruction, Individualized Instruction
Kowszun, J. – 1992
This paper provides an introduction to a particular systems-theoretical approach to problem-solving in the management of education usually referred to as soft-systems methodology (SSM), developed by Peter Checkland in the 1970s. SSM should provide a powerful tool for managers in education at any level who have a strategic role because it can be…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Quality
Rahn, Mikala L.; And Others – 1992
A study examined the performance measures and standards implemented by each of the 50 states to comply with Section 115 of the 1990 Perkins Act. Data were gathered through workshops and telephone conversations with contact persons from each state and from an analysis of relevant state-supplied documentation. The performance measures and standards…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, National Surveys
McLaughlin, Gerry; And Others – 1993
The assessment of educational outcomes has been a major area of interest among policy makers in recent years. Those with responsibility for assessment often are drawn from the ranks of the faculty and have little knowledge of or interest in institutional research. This paper provides a means to distinguish the unique, yet interrelated ways in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Outcomes Assessment, Cooperation, Educational Quality
Chaffee, Ellen Earle – 1992
This speech addresses the problem of higher education's response to the forces of change and argues for a reinventing of higher education rather than repeatedly amending core teaching and research activities to fit new social and economic situations. Three higher education organizational dynamics (recruitment, budgeting, and handling outside…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economic Change, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Luft, Pamela; Rusch, Frank R. – 1993
This paper examines transition from school to post-school activities for students with chronic illness and disabilities, with reference to: four legislative acts that impact transition services, seven legislated implementation mechanisms, seven outcomes areas, and a social system for evaluating services to transitioning youth. Transition…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Center, David B. – 1993
This paper cites ethical provisions and professional standards that affect the selection of behavioral interventions that will benefit exceptional individuals without undermining their dignity. A three-category system that classifies behavioral interventions on the basis of their intrusiveness or restrictiveness is presented. Interventions are…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classification, Classroom Techniques
Stevenson, Kimberly – 1990
This master's thesis describes the development of an expert system and interactive videodisc computer-based instructional job aid used for assisting in the integration of electron beam lithography devices. Comparable to all comprehensive training, expert system and job aid development require a criterion-referenced systems approach treatment to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Electromechanical Technology, Engineering Technicians
Afshar, Arash – 1991
A theoretical basis for defining and measuring the quality of institutions of higher education, namely for accreditation purposes, is developed. The theory, the Attributive Theory of Quality, is illustrated using a calculation model that is based on general systems theory. The theory postulates that quality only exists in relation to the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Chubb, John E.; Moe, Terry M. – 1990
The effect of institutions on school effectiveness is explored in this book, which argues that school reforms in the United States are destined to fail because of the failure to address the root of the problem, which is found in the institutions of direct democratic control by which schools have traditionally been governed. Methodology involved…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Lashbrook, Velma J. – 1983
A systems approach to effective instructional design that is equally applicable to educational and organizational settings includes six components: (1) needs assessment, (2) systems design, (3) curriculum development, (4) organizational development, (5) feedback and evaluation, and (6) outcomes. The last component, outcomes, provides a context and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Damarin, Suzanne K. – 1990
Designed to begin a feminist "unthinking" and rethinking of educational technology, this paper begins by examining some definitions of what that technology essentially is. Three characteristics of a feminist approach to science that can inform a rethinking of educational technology are then identified: (1) the theorizing of gender as a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Definitions, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
