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Anderson, Stuart A. – 1989
A school board meeting serves several purposes. It is important that school boards be successful and effective governing bodies. This means becoming more efficient in conducting routine business; improving their ability to reach constructive decisions and to solve problems; making their meetings a source of good will among members, students, and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Decision Making, Educational Development
McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Bodilly, Susan J.; Orr, Nate; Scherer, Ethan; Constant, Louay; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, After School Programs, Grants, Data
McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Orr, Nate; Bodilly, Susan J.; Naftel, Scott; Constant, Louay; Scherer, Ethan; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Management Information Systems, Financial Support, Data
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Rooney, Joanne – Educational Leadership, 2006
Most scheduled gatherings of teachers are, in fact, meetings at which teachers yawn their way through lists of informational items announced and commented on by the principal. If any clear communication results from those meetings, it takes place in the parking lot long after the official meeting has ended. Good faculty meetings should be…
Descriptors: Staff Meetings, Teacher Participation, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Participative Decision Making
Willner, Lynn Shafer; Rivera, Charlene; Acosta, Barbara D. – George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2007
This report presents findings from a study conducted by The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (GW-CEEE) under the sponsorship of the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze school-based decision-making practices relevant to the inclusion and…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Inclusion, English Language Learners, Decision Making
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McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn; Andal, Jolynne; Brown, Kevin; Schneider, Barbara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2007
Educational improvement through data-based decision-making using high-quality data is a longstanding goal of policymakers and practitioners, and ensuring the quality of the evidence available to inform such decisions is a key part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The evidence-based education that such initiatives promote involves the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Information Needs, Information Systems, Politics of Education
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Burchinal, Margaret; Nelson, Lauren; Carlson, Mary; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this article relates neighborhood characteristics to the type of child care used in families with toddlers and preschoolers (N = 1,121; representative of children in Chicago in 1996-1998). Neighborhood structural disadvantage was assessed via U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Readiness, Family Characteristics, Disadvantaged Youth
Caridas, Evangeline; Hammer, Mark – Online Submission, 2006
(Purpose) The case study's purpose was to examine Participative Management Style, high performance strategies, intangible and tangible indicators, trust and its creation of superior achievement in a school district for elementary and middle school children (Illinois). (Methodology) A collaboration effort by Superintendent, administrative staff,…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Participative Decision Making, School Districts, Elementary Schools
ANDERSON, LEE F.; AND OTHERS – 1964
UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE WERE SUBJECTED TO TWO TYPES OF TEACHING TECHNIQUES-SIMULATION (GAME PLAYING) AND CASE STUDY. PERSONALITY FACTORS OF MOTIVATION AND COGNITIVE STYLE WERE DETERMINED FOR THE STUDENTS IN EACH GROUP. THESE WERE CONSIDERED THE INTERVENING VARIABLES. THE STUDENTS WERE TESTED BEFORE AND AFTER THE COURSE OF…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Decision Making Skills, Simulation
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Conrad, M. J.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1973
Examines strategic, tactical, and operational levels of educational planning. A model includes components for planning process strategy, data information systems, goal formulation, sub-optimizing'' means of goal achievement, synthesizing plan alternatives, implementation, and adjustment and reassessment. A practical illustration of the planning…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Models
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Leblebici, Huseyin; Salancik, Gerald R. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1981
A questionnaire survey of loan departments at 41 Illinois banks examined the effects of environmental diversity, uncertainty of loan repayment, and volatility of local unemployment on the banks' decision-making procedures on loan applications. Results indicate the banks' normal procedures vary with environmental diversity but not with volatility.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Banking, Credit (Finance), Decision Making
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Lieber, Stanley R.; And Others – Journal of Leisure Research, 1989
In an Illinois study of the degree to which availability of alternative recreational opportunities influenced household expenditures, relative effects of site characteristics were compared to spatial context within which recreators made destination choices. The principal factors influencing per person per day expenditures were agglomerative and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Expenditures
Pittman, Vicki; Gahungu, Athanase – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in effectiveness between comprehensive sexuality abstinence-based education and abstinence-only education. A survey was developed and distributed to over 140 individuals via a variety of sources such as: (1) the researcher's e-mail lists; (2) a group of City Core/City Year volunteers; (3) a…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Program Effectiveness, Patients, Young Adults
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Melnick, Steven A.; Henk, William A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Background: The No Child Left Behind legislation creates an increased need for new school-based empirical studies whose implementation will depend largely on researchers' access to various school populations and records. Access decisions are typically made by superintendents, or their designees, functioning as gatekeepers who control right of…
Descriptors: School Districts, Superintendents, Decision Making, Federal Legislation
Kinney, Gloria – Nat Sch, 1969
Third of three articles in a Review, titled "Senstivity Training: Can It Work for the Schools? .
Descriptors: Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Relationship, Leadership Training
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