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| Educational Planning | 4 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 4 |
| Models | 3 |
| Systems Approach | 3 |
| Decision Making | 2 |
| Futures (of Society) | 2 |
| Mathematical Models | 2 |
| Operations Research | 2 |
| Regional Planning | 2 |
| Research Methodology | 2 |
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| Planning and Changing | 10 |
Author
| McNamara, James F. | 10 |
| Abramson, Marty | 1 |
| Burns, Robert J. | 1 |
| Hanson, Marjorie K. | 1 |
| Rick, Zelda L. | 1 |
| Smink, Jay | 1 |
| Winkler, Dwight D. | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
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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
Peer reviewedBurns, Robert J.; McNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1974
The Skyline Wide Educational Plan (SWEP) presented is one example of how an urban school district can approach longrange planning using technological forecasting methods. The major project goal of SWEP is to ascertain the need for and the feasibility of a comprehensive secondary educational system (facilities and programs) to serve the Dallas-Fort…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Planning, Futures (of Society), Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1978
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Methodology, Sampling
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1975
Outlines a field-based project that shows how an urban school district can use futures research models to approach long-range planning. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Methods, Models
Peer reviewedWinkler, Dwight D.; McNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1975
Outlines the facts being presented in the literature about mathematical models, their related components, and their practical and theoretical uses. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Models, Models
Peer reviewedAbramson, Marty; McNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1981
Present federal methods of monitoring the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) only verify compliance with the law. They do not evaluate the law's effectiveness in improving disabled children's functional abilities. A number of educational parameters and outcomes can be used to measure PL 94-142's efficacy. (RW)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedHanson, Marjorie K.; McNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1981
A case study of a survey of new students made at a postsecondary vocational-technical school illustrates several sampling problems, including sample size, target population definition, determination of research purposes, costs, error tolerance, accuracy, and interpretation of research results for use by policymakers. (RW)
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Reliability, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F.; Smink, Jay – Planning and Changing, 1970
Focuses on the emerging role of the State Department of Education (SDE) and attempts to present the results of a few recent publications dealing with the types of services that an SDE should provide in the decade of the seventies. (JF)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Governance, Government Role, Labor Utilization
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1971
Descriptors: Data Processing, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1972
Descriptors: Age, Educational Planning, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Trends
