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Groves, Roderick T. – Planning for Higher Education, 1981
Staff planning is discussed, including projections, on a departmental and institutionwide basis, of future staff requirements on the basis of what is known or can be realistically estimated. Program changes and availability of personnel are also considered, along with the question of tenure quotas. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, College Planning, Decision Making
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Benjamin, Susan; Gard, Jane – NASSP Bulletin, 1993
Staff and students at an Illinois high school recently decided to challenge all previously held assumptions about all school operations. For this group, school was best viewed as culture (not bureaucracy) dependent on collaboration, shared leadership, and flat organizational structure. Group identified communication styles matching their approach,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Communication Skills, High Schools, Participative Decision Making
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
Now that all 50 states and the District of Columbia are building statewide longitudinal data systems, the next step is to ensure that the information in these systems is used to improve student learning. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has identified 10 actions that states can take to ensure that the right data are available and accessible and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), High School Graduates, Graduation Rate
HASTINGS, J.T.; AND OTHERS – 1960
THE STUDY BEGAN WITH A STATEWIDE QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL STATISTICS ABOUT VARIABLES EXPECTED TO BE OF CONTINUING INTEREST, AND TENTATIVE ANSWERS TO SUCH QUESTIONS AS WHETHER FORMAL TRAINING IN TESTING IS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT PRACTICES IN THE USE OF TESTS OR IN DIFFERENT BELIEFS ABOUT THEIR USEFULNESS, AND WHETHER THE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Counselors, Decision Making Skills, Inservice Teacher Education
Gamberg, Herbert – 1969
Rather than accept present theoretical approaches to the study of community political power as a basis for developing new theory, this monograph examines the saliency of the approaches themselves. By considering what kinds of data and questions are excluded by Hunter's "repute analysis" technique and Dahl's "issue analysis"…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, City Government, Decision Making, Democratic Values
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Keel, William R. – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1976
Policies, procedures, guidelines, and rationale developed by various Illinois agencies responsible for physical facility development in community colleges were investigated. Data was assembled from surveys, documents, and interviews with former and present agency staff. Recommendations were made concerning the Capital Development Board, effective…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Educational Facilities, Facility Guidelines
Wade, Pamela – 1994
This report describes a program for increasing the thinking skills of fourth grade students in one classroom in northern Illinois. Both objective and subjective data gathering found that students experienced difficulty in relating and applying facts and concepts on tasks requiring more sophisticated thinking. Solution strategies combined with an…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary School Students
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Buesching, Don; Glasser, Michael – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
The factors involved in the decisions of physicians to locate in Rockford, IL were examined. Questions were asked concerning faculty status, factors influencing practice location decisions, and perceived advantages of association with a medical education center. The medical education center was an important secondary factor. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Demography, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education
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Rocheleau, Bruce – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Evaluated police information systems in 149 Illinois police departments using satisfaction and impact measures. Police report high rates of satisfaction but little impact on operations and decision making beyond that of a positive impact on reporting capacity. Police generally do not view these systems as sources of decision support. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Needs, Information Systems, Information Technology
Daniels, M. Harry; And Others – 1983
This paper examines the role played by parents in their children's career decision-making process. Parents are identified as preeminent influences of adolescents' career decision making, a fact that has been largely unrecognized by career guidance personnel and school administrators, as evidenced by the lack of programs designed to enable parents…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Counseling Techniques
SNOW, R.J. – 1967
TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOL SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS MAY BE DISTINCT IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND CONFLICT PROPENSITY, THE VOTING RECORDS, SOCIOECONOMIC DATA, AND ASPECTS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION INTERACTION WITH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OF FOUR SUBURBAN ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES WERE ANALYZED. A COMPARISON OF CONSTRAINTS AND SUPPORTS FOR THE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Resources, Conflict, Decision Making
MINAR, DAVID W.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF A SAMPLE OF 48 SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYSTEM INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THREE MAJOR VARIABLES--COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, COMMUNITY LEVEL OR POPULAR DECISION-MAKING AND INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING. DATA UTILIZED IN THE STUDY WERE VOTES CAST IN DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AND REFERENDA,…
Descriptors: Administrators, American Culture, Boards of Education, Community Influence
Miles, Martha A. – Public/Private Ventures, 2006
Workforce development organizations are more and more focused on achieving and documenting performance outcomes; yet managers frequently face a challenge getting buy-in from frontline staff about collecting and using data--not only to satisfy funders' needs but to improve services. "Good Stories Aren't Enough" looks at the experience and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Employment Services, Outcomes of Education, Organizational Culture
Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission, Springfield. – 1977
This study examines the Illinois General Assembly's role in state finance and focuses on how the legislature can best control the scope and limits of state finance. The report is divided into four sections. The first section introduces the language of the appropriations process and the techniques of control applied to that process. The second…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accounting, Budgeting, Decision Making
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Bers, Trudy Haffron – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1980
Presents the findings of a survey of Illinois community college trustees. Focuses on the differences between suburban and rural trustees with regard to personal characteristics, trustee-constituency linkages, decision making, and priorities given to various college programs. (AYC)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
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