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Peer reviewedMcFerron, J. Richard; And Others – Journal of Educational Administration, 1988
Using data from a random sample of chief liberal arts academic officers in American colleges and universities, this study examines formal methods for evaluating these officers' resource allocation policies and factors influencing evaluations. Findings suggest that "resources for excellence" are unevenly distributed among departments and that…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Liberal Arts
Peer reviewedHirst, Eric – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1989
Activities during the initial 18-month cycle of the Demand and Resource Evaluation (DARE) Program of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company (Washington State) are described. The role of evaluation in public utility planning is discussed. Cooperation, communication, and consensus among utility planning staff are concluded to be vital. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Planning, Program Development
Download full textBarak, Robert J. – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2007
A survey of the academic program review and approval activity of state-wide postsecondary coordinating and governing boards was concluded in 2006. This study is the latest in a series of survey/studies of state level program review and approval begun roughly thirty years ago by this author and colleagues. The boards selected for this survey were…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Postsecondary Education, Surveys, State Programs
Peer reviewedJackson, Frank; Heeney, William – Educational Planning, 1975
The Campus Level Planning Model provides seven basic steps for a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system at the school level. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Management Systems
Lucco, Robert J.; Higgins, Paul S. – 1982
The Task Force on Resource Allocation for Program Evaluation was established by Division H of the American Educational Research Association at the 1978 Annual Meeting in Toronto. This paper presents the recommendations of the Task Force concerning the allocation of resources for program evaluation. Program evaluation is needed to provide…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment, Policy Formation, Program Budgeting
Peer reviewedFrankel, Mark S. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
A discussion of resource allocation for scientific research identifies the ethical principles underlying the present debate and begins to construct a framework for evaluating various resource allocation proposals. The intent is to promote greater consideration of the link between ethics and science resource allocations. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Research Administration
Using the "Risk Factor Paradigm" in Prevention: Lessons from the Evaluation of Communities That Care
Direct linkFrance, Alan; Crow, Iain – Children & Society, 2005
This paper discusses results from an evaluation of the UK-based Communities that Care programme. This "risk and protective" programme was set up in 1997 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation with a central aim of exploring if such an approach could be successful in the UK context. Communities that Care puts into operation the "risk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Problems, Models, Risk
Christensen, Gayle S. – US Department of Education, 2007
The reauthorization of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" ("ESEA") as amended by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" ("NCLB") relied on two notable policy instruments to improve education: accountability and flexibility. "NCLB" complements accountability with several new flexibility…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Demonstration Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Regulation
Millard, Richard – Compact, 1969
Summary of report on study entitled PLANNING FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN A PLANNING, PROGRAMMING AND BUDGETING STSTEM," by Selma Mushkin (Education Commission of the States Steering Committee meeting, December, 1968).
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Program Budgeting, Program Development
Palola, Ernest G.; Lehmann, Timothy – Journal of Technological Horizons in Education, 1978
Presents a detailed research approach, designed for higher institutions, to evaluate their program effectiveness, with respect to students' personal and intellectual growth, and the cost involved. Helps the institutions to make more informed decisions regarding their priorities. (GA)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Planning, Evaluation, Higher Education
Spaapen, Jack – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1985
The Netherlands' experience with the Conditional Finance System, introduced in the universities in 1982 make explicit the distribution of research effort and allocate research resources on bases other than enrollments, is discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Administration
Peer reviewedTemkin, Sanford – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1972
Combines elements of the problem solving approach inherent in methods of applied economics and operations research and the structural-functional analysis common in social science modeling to develop an approach for economic planning and resource allocation for schools and other public sector organizations. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Mathematical Models, Objectives
Peer reviewedGillis, Arthur L. – Planning for Higher Education, 1982
A method for analyzing expenditures and revenue, and a matrix for use in decision making about program choice and more productive use of resources, is outlined. Institutional integrity (internal and external cohesion) is preferred to emphasis on competition. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Decision Making, Higher Education
Frase, Larry E.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Describes the implementation and evaluation of a program rewarding good teaching in the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson (Arizona). Based on motivation-hygiene theory, which claims that money is not a motivator, the program funds teacher attendance at conferences and purchases of instructional equipment rather than teacher pay…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Incentives, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Peer reviewedLevine, Victor – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
A program can be evaluated, and a cost-benefit ratio can be calculated to five decimal places, without ever directly examining outcomes. A useful vocabulary in economics and an understanding of the concepts involved is provided evaluators by an economist. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Human Services, Program Evaluation
