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Baldwin, Grover H. – 1986
The use of quantitative decision making tools provides the decision maker with a range of alternatives among which to decide, permits acceptance and use of the optimal solution, and decreases risk. Training line administrators in the use of these tools can help school business officials obtain reliable information upon which to base district…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Seidner, Stan; Ward, James – 1989
An analysis of the consequences of state administrative and legislative decisions on levels of appropriations for bilingual education in Illinois is presented. The report first describes existing legislation for bilingual education funding in the state, including legislation specifically for transitional bilingual education and other transitional…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Models, Political Influences
Patterson, Robert A. – 1978
The development of a curriculum review mechanism, the Curriculum Interaction Model (CIM) and how it is being used for academic planning and management purposes at two distinctly different institutions, the State University College of New York at Buffalo and Barnard College of Columbia University, is described. The CIM is a quantitative academic…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Administration
Correa, Hector – Comp Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Planning, Educational Supply, Human Resources
Lucco, Robert J. – 1979
The educational administrator must often straddle the gap between empirically sound and politically expedient decisions, employing policy assessment as a hedge against adopting ill-conceived policies. The resource allocation model (RAM) attempts to remedy this dilemma by tying program evaluation and policy analysis into a single conceptual yet…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
WAYSON, W. W. – 1967
A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IS DESCRIBED FOR DEVELOPING A UNIVERSITY COURSE WHICH COMBINES POLITICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. IT PROPOSES THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, AS ALL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, HAS MEANS OF MAKING AUTHORITATIVE DECISIONS GOVERNING THE BEHAVIOR OF SYSTEM MEMBERS. DAVID EASTON'S INPUT-OUTPUT MODEL IS CITED AS USEFUL IN STUDYING THE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior, Courses, Decision Making
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Research, Information Systems, and Institutional Aid. – 1977
Described is an experimental, quantitative model developed by the New York State Education Department to evaluate state-level financing strategies for higher education. It can be used to address a variety of questions and takes into account a host of direct and indirect relationships. It uses computer software and optimization algorithms developed…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Computer Programs, Educational Finance
Rossmiller, Richard A.; Geske, Terry G. – 1977
This paper discusses several concepts and techniques from the areas of systems theory and economic analysis that can be used as tools in an effort to improve the productivity of the educational enterprise. Several studies investigating productivity in education are reviewed, and the analytical problems in conducting cost-effectiveness studies are…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conceptual Schemes, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research
Palola, Ernest G., And Others – 1975
A major challenge in higher education is to build evaluation models that first of all spell out various effectiveness measures and then related cost data. The Program Effectiveness and Related Costs (PERC) framework addresses this problem. The five components of PERC are outcomes, costs, students, learning programs, and faculty. An overview and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Systems Research Group, Toronto (Ontario). – 1970
CAMPUS is composed of 4 basic elements. The central element is a computer-based simulation model that is designed to estimate the resource implications of alternative administrative and educational plans and policies. A planning, programming and budgeting system is used to integrate the simulation model into the formal planning and budgeting…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Planning, Higher Education
Geoffrion, A. M.; And Others – 1971
This paper presents the conceptual development and application of a new interactive approach for multicriterion optimization to the aggregate operating problem of an academic department. This approach provides a mechanism for assisting an administrator in determing resource allocation decisions and only requires local trade-off and preference…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrators, Decision Making Skills
Weinberger, Elizabeth; And Others – 1972
The Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) is a system designed to provide appropriate decision-related data for local, regional, and State managers within Massachusetts who are responsible for resource allocation over: (1) social agencies, (2) education, and (3) occupational education. The two general types of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Feedback, Information Systems, Management Systems
Rice, Gary Alan – 1974
The purposes of this study were to determine what characterizes a useful cost estimating model at the community college level, to implement at a community college the Resource Requirements Prediction Model 1.6 (RRPM) developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, to identify problems associated with implementation and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Programs, Cost Estimates, Costs
Hecquet, M.; Jadot, J. – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1978
The origin and objectives of the HIS, MSAR, TUSS, and Gern models are explained and main characteristics are compared regarding: estimates of student numbers, teaching curricula, size of groups, hourly workload of teaching staff, calculation of space requirements, non-teaching staff, operating and capital budgets. Pooling of efforts is…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning, Comparative Analysis
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Cohn, Elchanan – Journal of Education Finance, 1977
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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