A case study of the impact of school administration computerization on the department head’s role

Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-401

  Telem, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Department head; Information systems; Information technology; Instructional evaluation school; Management; Subject matter coordinator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010496946     PISSN: 08886504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08886504.1999.10782261     Document Type: Article

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