Scheduling Standards

Hi,

I am writing a research paper on benchmarking of scheduling practices.In which I aiming to find:

cross checks or procedures required to determine the qulaity of schedule before making it a baseline schedule.Some example for cross check may be: open ends,type of relationships,positive or negative lag etc.

Quantification methods for these procedures to score the quality of schedule.

Any idea where I can find any material related to list of checks and quantification methods for these checks so that I can score the provided schedule???