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Douglas, Scott; 't Hart, Paul; Van Erp, Judith – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
Journalists, politicians, watchdog institutions, and public administration scholars devote considerable energy to identifying and dissecting failures in government. Studies and case-studies of policy, organizational, and institutional failures in the public sector figure prominently in public administration curriculums and classrooms. Such a focus…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Governance, Public Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Slagle, Derek R.; Blankenberger, Bob; Williams, Adam M. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2022
This article compares the hireability of doctoral graduates of online and traditional public affairs programs in the United States. In this context, "hireability" refers to the measure of how likely it is that someone may be hired. There has been an expansion in the number of awarded doctoral degrees, particularly through online degree…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Graduates, Doctoral Programs, Electronic Learning
Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Tao, Claire Y. H. – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
During 1980, many Western countries launched public administration reforms. These reform waves also blew over to many Asian countries. With the advent of globalization and the rise of knowledge-based society, education and innovation are regarded as the driving forces behind social and economic growth and development. To enhance the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Comparative Education
González-Ortiz-de-Zárate, Aitana; Alonso García, Miguel Aurelio; Quesada-Pallarès, Carla; Berrocal Berrocal, Francisca; McLean, Gary N. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to validate two scales, the factors predicting transfer (FPT) and the effectiveness questionnaire (CdE), in the Spanish Public Administration (SPA). Design/methodology/approach: The FPT was administered at the end of the training, and the CdE four months after training. Participants had attended one of the 62…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Transfer of Training
Ekman, Marianne; Lindgren, Monica; Packendorff, Johann – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In this article, we discuss how "managerialist" and "leaderist" discourses (O'Reilly and Reed "Public Administration" 88:960-978, 2010; "Organization Studies" 32:1079-1101, 2011) are drawn upon in the context of the deregulation of Swedish higher education. As of 2011, there has been new legislation that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Administration, Governance
Eacott, Scott; Norris, Judith – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
On an international scale, public administration is undergoing considerable restructuring as principles of private enterprise are becoming the orthodoxy. At the same time, economic instability (or crisis) is gripping both national and global financial markets, suggesting a flaw in the system or even that capitalism has reached it limits. Crises in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership
Greenhill, Muriel – 1976
Competence-based education is defined and described as a system, and reference is made to its application to undergraduate education in public administration. Competence-based education emphasizes an integration of theory and practice in learning and curriculum and the organization of educational goals into explicit outcomes. The attainment of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
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Frederickson, H. George – Change, 2001
Using his experience with rankings of Master's degree programs in public affairs, one public administration professor provides lessons for those in other disciplines who are about to be ranked, explaining what he learned from being ranked and how to improve the process. A sidebar presents U.S. News & World Report rankings in Master's Degree…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Masters Degrees, Program Evaluation
Stuart, Latazia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This applied dissertation was designed to understand and explore common faculty perceptions of why some faculty engage their online healthcare graduate students who are deficient in writing skills to improve and what interventions they used. This study utilized a case study qualitative approach to collect and analyze the data. This study explored…
Descriptors: Graduate School Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Jennings, Edward T., Jr. – Public Administration Review, 1989
Examines the development of the movement toward accountability in public higher education and its implication for Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs. Analyzes prior and existing efforts to ensure and assess quality in MPA programs and the different forms that outcome assessment might take and describes assessment techniques.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Jones, Kelsey A. – 1987
An integrative approach to departmental design proposed for the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of the District of Columbia is described. The proposed curriculum classification framework for faculty assignment consists of three matrices: social behavior and humanities courses, technical courses, and philosophical courses. For the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, College Faculty, Criminology
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Mayne, John – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2001
Suggests that performance measurement can address attribution questions in studying accountability for results and outcomes in studies of public administration. Describes the steps necessary to produce a credible "contribution story" so that managers, researchers, and policy makers can arrive at conclusions about the contribution a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Program Evaluation, Public Administration
Cameron, Kim S., Comp. – 1982
A bibliography on organizational effectiveness that contains approximately 515 references, dated primarily since 1970, is presented. The focus is the organizational level of analysis, rather than individual effectiveness or environmental (e.g., economy) performance. The literature included comes from the organizational sciences, higher education,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, College Administration, Economic Factors
Cowan, Jackie; Hogan, Anna; Enright, Eimear – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
The intensification of data collection practices in schooling -- often due to state accountability requirements -- has resulted in the widespread adoption of commercial student management systems (SMS) in schools. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a New Zealand primary school, this paper investigates its adoption of a commercial SMS, and the…
Descriptors: Commercialization, School Administration, Public Schools, Accountability