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| St. Louis, Larry | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F. – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Linear Programing, Models, Planning, Program Development
St. Louis, Larry; McNamara, James F. – 1971
This paper presents a decision model based on microeconomic theory. The model utilizes a stepwise polynomial regression to derive a cost function and then constructs an average cost curve to identify an optimal school district size. An application of the model to the State of Oregon illustrates how economies of scale information for a State system…
Descriptors: Centralization, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F.; Rick, Zelda L. – Planning and Changing, 1976
Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
McNamara, James F. – Education Tomorrow, 1972
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Models, Operations Research
