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Western Michigan University

Masters Theses

1990

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A Decision-Making Model For Adding, Revising, And Terminating Vocational/Occupational Programs At The Van Buren Vocational-Technical Center, James R. Allen Aug 1990

A Decision-Making Model For Adding, Revising, And Terminating Vocational/Occupational Programs At The Van Buren Vocational-Technical Center, James R. Allen

Masters Theses

This project for the Van Buren Vocational-Technical Center, Lawrence, Michigan, was designed to provide management with an instrument to assist them in their annual vocational program planning activities. The result was the development of a decision-making model that applies objective evaluative methods for determining occupational program additions, revisions, and terminations.

The model employs separate matrix worksheets for adding, revising, and terminating job training programs. Each classification utilizes five components for completing the worksheet: (1) selection of ten evaluation criteria, (2) criteria weights, (3) criteria definitions, (4) criteria data source information, and (5) criteria cell scores for applying data source values …