This session will highlight an easy survey package which lets non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, and view statistics. This is an open source application all managed online via a web browser. By using phpESP, the faculty is given the freedom of creating various surveys at their convenience and link them to their…

To address system problems and other management weaknesses, in 1998 Congress created the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) within the Department of Education. This office adopted a new approach to systems integration using middleware (software that can allow an application to access data residing indifferent databases) and Extensible Markup…

This book shows how the quality management approach pioneered in Japan by Dr. W. Edwards Deming allows educational service centers to expand services and be more flexible by reducing waste and rework. Deming's method shows how to change from reactive management to a dynamic system of continuous improvement that restores worker pride, increases…

State education agencies are increasingly building the capacity to collect and manage sizable quantities of information about schools and districts and to match individual student records over time and across databases. An adequate statewide student data-collection system makes it easier for a state to meet legal reporting requirements such as…

This paper describes the experiences of researchers conducting research using an online course for the professional development of middle school mathematics and science teachers. The paper also offers recommendations to developers of course management systems (CMS). The online course focused on strategies that promoted gender equitable pedagogy…

A brief look at Planning-Programing-Budgeting Systems, which are sound principles of decision-making and problem-solving, with illustrations of their application to persons serving in various roles throughout the school system. (Author/HB)

Development and Implementation of a management by objectives system is examined. Cited is the Oklahoma experience which has shown management by objectives to be an effective management system for the State Department of Vocational and Technical Education. Planning, decisions, evaluation, goals and stumbling blocks of program implementation are…

Authoritarian management from above can no longer impose controls on subordinates. Participative management is now essential to improve organizational efficiency, release individual and group initiative, and make a fundamental improvement in the climate of British industrial relations. (MS)

Government legislation influences management styles. When the power is generated from below instead of above, a completely new philosophy is necessitated to cope with the systems of informal and formal power. (MS)

Application of a generalized data base management system enabled the new Physics-Mathematics-Astronomy Library to couple the immediate needs of moving and integrating two libraries with long-term capabilities. (Author)

Paper differentiates managerial performance from management capacity and management style. Methods of structured communication and problem-solving are proposed, in the context of an overall educational working structure, arising out of systematic principles, and oriented towards individualized, integrated and broadly based learning. (Author)

Article focus' on the financial information requirements for two levels of station management: project (project production) managers and functional managers. (Author)

A description of Management By Objectives (MBO), a clearly defined management system which is necessary in order to arrive at solid-based, effective long-range planning. (Author)

Article presents a progression training model as a possible approach for minimizing the conflict that often emerges between superiors and subordinates when management by objectives programs are initiated. (GB)

An address delivered at the opening session of the 1973 National Business Education Association Convention. (Editor)