THIS RESEARCH REPORT DEALS WITH THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE DECISION STRUCTURE FOR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS. VIEWING EDUCATION AS A WEALTH OR UTILITY-PRODUCING PROCESS, WHICH TRADITIONALLY HAS BEEN SHAPED BY PURELY INTUITIVE RATHER THAN ANALYTICAL DECISIONS, A PLAN FOR AN ANALYTICAL ADAPTIVE DECISION STRUCTURE BASED UPON FOUR…

This is a report of a five-day training session on systems research for counselors, counselor educators, and supervisors. The training session was an advanced program dealing with the use of systems research for planning and evaluating counseling, counselor education, supervision and related programs. The primary aims of the program were to: (1)…

Using effectivemess, efficiency, self-sustenance, and communicability as criteria, a conceptual model, called SCRAPE, was developed at the University of Texas to systematically describe educational behaviors. The key elements of the system are: (1) diagnosis and prescription, (2) instructional events, (3) achievement evaluation, and (4) consequent…