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DILL, WILLIAM R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
SEVENTY YOUNG MANAGERS, FACING THE CHALLENGE OF SELF EDUCATION, WERE QUESTIONED ON THEIR AGENDAS AND STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING, AND THEIR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS IN LEARNING. EXECUTIVES FOUND DIFFICULTY IN DESCRIBING AGENDAS BECAUSE THEY LACKED TIME, OR PRACTICE, OR A SENSE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. MAIN PRESSURES FOR SELF EDUCATION WERE TO QUALIFY FOR…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attitude Change, Career Planning, Decision Making
Metropolitan Fund, Inc., Detroit, MI. – 1966
TO DESIGN AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM TO ALLEVIATE THE SHORTAGE OF COMPETENT PERSONNEL FOR TOP LEVEL POSITIONS IN LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT, THE INTER-UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (MICHIGAN) EXPLORED (1) THE FEASIBILITY OF A MID-CAREER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, PARTICULARLY IN THE DETROIT METROPOLITAN AREA, (2) THE NATURE OF THE "KNOWLEDGES" REQUIRED OF…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Core Curriculum, Credits, Decision Making
Harrington, Emmet, Ed.; Glenzinski, Mary, Ed. – 1975
This manual grew out of a study of lay-staffed Catholic schools. In the study, lay principals often expressed the need for assistance in understanding more about Catholic school administration, particularly about what is unique to Catholic schools. The publication is not meant to be an exhaustive manual on school administration, but focuses on…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Budgeting, Catholic Schools
Beckum, Leonard C.; Dasho, Stefan J. – 1980
The Multi-Ethnic School Environments Study evolved in response to the need for a research base for identifying teacher training needs in newly desegregated school districts. The ultimate goal of this five year project is to generate teacher training processes and materials to aid teachers in coping with the realities of desegregation. The first…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Board of Education Policy, Case Studies, Classroom Desegregation
Brittenham, Lee Roy – 1980
The major purposes of this study were to describe and explain, and then to generate grounded theory about the administrative organization, processes, and behavior in an innovative senior high school. The school selected for the study was nationally known for leadership in implementing individualized learning programs compatible with the model of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational Innovation
Baker, George A.; Goodman, Alberta – 1976
This four-part learning module was designed to assist educators in evaluating their leadership style and professional interactions with others. After defining leadership, Part I discusses task analysis and illustrates its use in educational settings. Then, the module lists the personality traits identified in research as important to successful…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, Group Dynamics
Stuart, Robert C. – 1974
This student/participant handbook is part of the first of ten modules which comprise a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. The strategic planning module introduces a decision making process for reducing the uncertainty under which systems operate. Its primary objective is to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Government (Administrative Body), Government Employees, Inservice Education
Caruthers, J. Kent; Orwig, Melvin – 1979
Budgeting and budget planning in higher education are considered, and the long-standing debate concerning whether budgeting is largely a technical or a political exercise is reviewed in this monograph. The roles of various participants in the budgeting process and the form of their participation, with emphasis on centralization of authority in the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Bowlsbey, JoAnn H.; And Others – 1976
A comprehensive report of the last six weeks of a three-month field trial of DISCOVER, conducted in one junior high and one senior high school in Baltimore, Maryland, and interpretation of the collected data are provided in this report. (DISCOVER, the product of four years of development, 1972-76, is a computer-based guidance system which includes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Ahrens, Stephen W. – 1979
Various techniques used by state agencies, secondary schools, community colleges, and large universities to forecast enrollments are described and guidelines for constructing forecasting procedures are outlined. The forecasting techniques are divided into three categories: (1) quantitative techniques based on historical data that attempt curve…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Planning, Colleges, Decision Making
Gillmore, Gerald M. – 1979
It is argued in this paper that generalizability theory provides a uniquely useful framework for defining and quantifying the dependability of data for decision making. It does so by requiring careful specification of the conditions of measurement and the anticipated sources of variation in the results of the measurement procedure. A distinction…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Delaney, John D. – 1978
The development and implementation of a formal homeroom program for seventh-grade students entering a two-year junior high school from five elementary schools is presented. Included are descriptions of: (1) the orientation phase, in which students as sixth graders in their respective elementary schools were provided slide shows, tours, and parent…
Descriptors: Classroom Guidance Programs, Decision Making Skills, Doctoral Dissertations, Humanistic Education
Mosher, Edith K. – 1968
A 1968 appraisal of the effectiveness of the school research office as a channel for the dissemination of research and development information to school personnel is the main concern of this report. The paper is a product of the Communication Program at Far West Laboratory which is designed to fill three main research needs: the investigation of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1953
Seven major topics were included in the conference proceedings: (1) Improving Evaluation of Educational Outcomes at the College Level; (2) Individual versus Group Decision Making; (3) Problems and Procedures in Profile Analysis; (4) Making Test Results Meaningful; (5) The Teaching of Educational Measurement; (6) The Interview as an Evaluation…
Descriptors: Course Content, Decision Making, Educational Benefits, Educational Improvement
Malheur Intermediate Education District, Vale, OR. – 1977
As part of a larger program of a consortium of six rural Oregon counties (SIXCO), a study was conducted to select instruments which provided a measure of career decision-making skills and to utilize these instruments on populations of students who received varying types of guidance processes in their school programs. Of the twenty-nine instruments…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development
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