Summarizes research which identified characteristics of evaluation planning, implementation, and follow-up that enhance the likelihood that the resulting information will be utilized. Delineates the exemplary practices employed in North Central Association's planning, implementation, and follow-up procedures. (CAM)

A process developed by the Dallas County (Texas) Community College District allows simultaneous budget development and planning. All units are given a bottom line figure in the fall that is not changed prior to completion of the plan. Contingency plans are included in the total plan. (Author/MLF)

This field study determined that need for a continuing medical education program is generally determined by consensus of a planning group. Data from interviews and questionnaires should thus be used to provide information to group members. (SK)

Transition programs can be useful if the students can quickly find some stability in their relationship to the official structures of the school. This can be provided through teachers, whom they see often; through classroom activities; through class excursions; and through extracurricular activities, such as a school camp. (HOD)

Utilizes a direct management framework to identify the school principal's competencies in problem solving, planning, organizing, controlling, directing, and staffing. (Author/GC)

Seeks to clarify the marketing process in the promotion of a school's educational offerings and the school's image within the community. Divides activities into advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and publicity. Includes a sample promotional plan which identifies objectives and tasks required for development and implementation. (DMM)

A framework that fits all higher education institutions is developed with the aim of improving the understanding of academe's functional organizational structure, administrative processes, and its information needs. The principal functional subsystems, their main interrelations, and their interrelations with the external environment are…

Outlines a number of categories for a school district to review when designing an effective plan for program reductions in the face of budgetary cutbacks. (FL)

Introduces the concept of "Meta-Planning," or planning for planning, and the principal's role. The concept is directed at technical planning, for example curriculum development, in which each process results in a product. (Author/WD)

The author outlines parallels between the current situation in education and business cycles of expansion-recession-depression. He draws lessons from the Depression of the 1930s for educators concerned with the bad times of the present and the near future. (SJL)

This article suggests skills and attitudes that are necessary for accomplishing the goals of counseling on issues of human sexuality, and how counselors can acquire these skills and attitudes. (Author)

With new knowledge (obtained from tools that can help to predict the future) and basic assumptions about society and education, educational planners must begin to plan for the future. Futurists and educators should compare approaches and plans for the near future and beyond. (CJ)

A typology of the terms used in school system planning and evaluation is intended to eliminate inconsistent terminology. (MLF)

Harold D. Lasswell's concept of the decision seminar and its associated idea sets have been successfully applied to educational problems, desegregation cases, and research. Lasswell's idea sets include decision phase analysis, a social process model, five intellectual tasks, and eight value/institution categories. (RW)

The author posits a conceptual approach to lifelong education that would provide a meaningful and productive framework for practical educational planning. Such an approach would enable the educational system to break from the confines of the education v training dichotomy. (SK)