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Download full textMann, Dale – 1975
This document reviews the consequences of urban community involvement in school decision making. Areas concerning educational decisions, shared as goals by lay communities and school people, are considered to be: institutional responsiveness, affective and material community support to schools, educational achievement, and the democratic principle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Support
Coleman, Peter – 1976
Power, or influence, in educational governance is increasingly becoming diffused. Everyone in education now feels relatively powerless. A political model of decision-making, emphasizing consultation with representatives of interest groups is now appropriate. In this model, the school board functions as "meta-mediator." This modifies the…
Descriptors: Administration, Board of Education Role, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Thomas, Gregory P. – 1975
The Oregon System of Mathematics Education (OSME) is a project geared toward identifying the curriculum gap between what exists and what is desired. Its primary objective is the improvement of mathematics education for all students in Oregon schools. The needs assessment described in this document focuses on gathering opinions and attitudes of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Morrison, Max E. – 1975
Specifying the purpose and uses to be made of a test prior to administration is of paramount importance when one considers the time administrators and teachers spend on selecting, developing, administering and scoring tests and the amount of student time required to complete the tests. Determination of how test results will be used should be made…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Wetherill, G. Richard; Buttram, Joan L. – 1976
In order to "cut through the jargon of the multifaceted field of evaluative research", 21 evaluation models representing a range of possibilities were identified (via literature review) and compared in terms of purpose and five basic phases applicable to rural development. Evaluation was defined as "the systematic examination of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Porreca, Anthony G., Ed. – 1974
The report contains eight conference presentations made by professional vocational-technical educators as they considered decisions necessary to occupational education program development in a period of rapidly changing times. The speakers' topics were related to decisions concerned with changes in society, competency based teacher education, new…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Conference Reports, Decision Making
O'Neil, Sharon Lund – 1976
The study was conducted to identify occupational survival skills--the basic knowledges, traits, and competencies necessary to maintain a job. A list of 27 basic occupational survival skills was developed, involving the following areas: interpersonal relations and communications; personal characteristics; decision making and problem solving; job…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Doctoral Dissertations, Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility
O'Connell, James F.; Heller, Robert W. – 1976
This study focused on the factors in negotiations that cause impasse. The major hypothesis, "There is a significant difference in the perceptions of school board members and teacher executive leadership regarding impasse factors," was upheld. Data were collected from board members, administrators, teacher association officials, and negotiators…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Decision Making
Byler, Bennie L. – 1976
The study was conducted to determine if there are differences in selected factors related to educational and occupational decision-making between vocational agriculture students who live on a farm and those who do not. The comparison is based on the students' educational and occupational plans; differences in selected personal, family, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Career Planning
Dauw, Dean C. – 1975
The book is intended as a manual for the reader who has some career or job questions. Exercises (such as questions to answer and charts to complete) are provided for independent use by the learner who may then be able to use the data generated to make decisions, to get opinions from significant persons, and to act upon what has been learned.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Coombs, Don H., Comp. – 1976
Most of the 101 citations included in this annotated bibliography on simulation and gaming were derived from a search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) indexes. Entries were published between 1972 and 1975. The bibliography is divided into nine sections: theory and research; social studies materials; environment, land use, and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction
Shapiro, Sylvia – 1975
In this large scale study, the extent of parent involvement in preschool day care and its impact on staff and on classroom environments in child-centered and adult-centered situations were assessed. Subjects were 15 directors, 30 teachers, 524 children in 30 classrooms. Interview schedules and a classroom observation scale were the two instruments…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Child Rearing, Classroom Environment
Colyer, Dale, Comp. – 1976
In response to the complexities of technological, social, political, and institutional change, the Property Research Workshop focused on the theoretical, rather than the empirical aspects of property-related research. Specifically, emphasis was on analytical and institutional approaches to research. Ten institutionally-related propositions were…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Decision Making, Economic Development, Futures (of Society)
Regional Learning Service of Central New York, Syracuse. – 1975
Faculty representatives from five postsecondary institutions having human service/human ecology programs and two members of the Regional Learning Service staff comprised a task force whose objectives were to identify competencies acquired through home management which relate to undergraduate course objectives, to recommend ways to assess these,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making Skills, Experiential Learning
Anchorage Borough School District, AK.
The Alaskan career development education program is a joint school/community systematic approach that provides career awareness in grades K-6, career exploration in grades 7-9, and career preparation in grades 10-12. Some significant reasons for a career development program in Alaskan schools include the very high State unemployment rate, the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
