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	29-ISBN: 1-885432-08-9

Useful Educational Results: Defining, Prioritizing & Accomplishing

Authors
Roger Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Office of Needs Assessment and Planning, Florida State University; Doug Leigh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education, Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education; Ryan Watkins, Ph.D.

This is a basic guide for educational administrators involved in planning, organization, curriculum design and development, and evaluation. The authors are recognized authorities in this area.

2001, 256 pages, 6x9, laminated hardcover

Excerpts from the Authors' Preface and Introduction

[This] guide…provides tools for developing a new view of educational planning, defining the specifications for educational success, conducting educational Needs Assessments, prioritizing objectives according to their costs and consequences, and selecting the most appropriate means and methods (solutions) for achieving success. Tools for the continuous improvement of educational interventions based on formative evaluation findings are also provided.

Today we know more about defining and accomplishing useful results than we ever have in the past. In other words, we know how to be successful…. To achieve useful results today and in the future, we have to shift our paradigms from an emphasis on means and activities to a focus on results and value added.

Contents

Section and chapter heads with a sampling of sub-chapters, some condensed for this space. All chapters begin with a section entitled "Key Points" and end with a section of references.

Preface/Introduction

One: Useful Results: A Foundation for Defining Educational Success
1. An Introduction to Results Focused Strategic Thinking
2. Essentials for the Strategic Thinker: Assuring Useful Results
3. A Performance Accomplishment System
Two: Integrated Strategic Planning and Needs Assessment: Results, Results, Results
4. Mega Planning: Defining and Delivering Useful Societal and Community Results
5. Macro Planning: Defining and Delivering Educational Results
6. Micro Planning: Defining Individual and Team Results
Three: The Whys and How: Achieving Useful Results
7. Performance Requirements and Causal Analysis
8. Data Collection and Analysis: A Focus on Results
9. Integrating Useful Results with Other Educational Management Tools
10. Delivering Useful Results: Plans that Lead to Payoffs

Glossary/Appendices/Index

35 figures, 14 tables
1-885432-08-9, 2001, 256 pages, 6x9, laminated hardcover, $44.50