Applying TQM In Higher Education Institutions
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A 9 page paper that explores the application of total quality management principles in a hypothetical higher education institution. The writer first provides an overview of Deming's principles, then discusses the problems facing the college of business at a university. A framework is then designed that utilizes the principles. Comments from writers who do not believe TQM can work in this setting are reported along with a dispute of these comments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGtqmuni.rtf

Are Principals Prepared for the Business Aspects of Running a School?
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This 13 page paper provides an overview of a study of principals regarding whether they were adequately prepared to handle the business aspects of running a school in their college or university coursework. This paper integrates a methodology for the study and an approach to understanding the overall issue of the changing role of the school principal. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: MHPrinc5.rtf

Article Analysis/School Leaders
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A 3 page article summary and critique that discusses a study conducted by Bush, O’Brien and Spangler (2005). This study evaluated a leadership program, which was formulated to follow the parameters of the Tri-dimensional Model of Administrator Preparation developed by Daresh and Playko in 1992. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khbos05.rtf

Asian American Studies at the University Level
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This 5 page report discusses the historical, political, and social development of Asian American studies at the university and college level. As with virtually any academic pursuit, the world of Asian American studies has developed, changed, redefined itself and continued to move forward as its own unique, educational discipline. The movement supporting ethnic and women's studies bean in the late 1960s as university people -- students, faculty, and staff, began to recognize that university curricula generally did not consider or appropriately respond to the diversity of American society, especially racial minorities, women, and the working class. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWstudaswps

Assessing and Enhancing Research Design Validity
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An 8 page paper discussing descriptive research design. Research in education is unique among disciplines employing empirical methods in that it so frequently addresses issues that are mutable according to populations, administrative structure, external societal conditions or other qualities. Well-designed research can stand as relevant for decades, but lesser efforts may or may not be useful in practice at any time. The purpose here is to evaluate the methodology described in this paper, evaluating it on several points. Those points include internal and external validity, construct validity and statistical conclusion validity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSvalidF01.wps