Develops a contingency model for managing a variety of corporate crises. Views crisis management as an information-processing situation and organizations that must cope with crisis as information-processing systems. Attempts to fit appropriate information-processing mechanisms to different categories of crises. (PRA)

Because of the limitations in the state of the art of using outcomes information in postsecondary education, and the important planning and management needs that exist in this area, a project was undertaken to (1) develop a set of coherent and widely accepted outcomes constructs that describe what an educational outcome is; and (2) develop a…

Importance of evaluation in the instructional process was discussed. Two models are presented; one outlines traditional instructional procedures and their impact on learners and the attribution of evaluations. A second model is offered which, by giving learners choices in the instructional process, can return evaluation to a meaningful diagnostic…

The SPADE theory, which uses linguistic formalisms to model the planning and debugging processes of computer programming, was simultaneously developed and tested in three separate contexts--computer uses in education, automatic programming (a traditional artificial intelligence arena), and protocol analysis (the domain of information processing…

International information dissemination in the field of interdisciplinary youth research is necessary to exchange research results and to stimulate the production of new information. Interest in information regarding theories, methods, and empirical results has resulted in development of international exchange mechanisms, but information about…

This paper examines the application of different planning models to the new product development process. Various models are discussed in relation to the four principal stages of the process: product search, project development, market structure analysis, and investment analysis. The authors emphasize that all useful planning models must address a…

This report presents the results of research that examined widely diverse decision problems and attempted to specify their common behavior elements. To take into account the psychological complexity of most real-life decision problems, and to develop a tentative organization of decision behavior that will embrace the many, highly diverse types of…

A theory of learning and forgetting is proposed which uses an information processing (IP) model. The IP model views learning as a process of storing, retrieving, and outputing information from a permanent memory. The concept of information pattern is important to the IP model because the pattern of information determines how the information will…

Presents a selective review of more recent research in leadership behavior, cognitive motivation, and styles of human information processing. Three specific research hypotheses are developed. (Available from Comparative Administration Research Institute, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; $12.00…

Presented and discussed is a model of sensory and intersensory components related to information processing and expressive activity in children with learning problems. (CL)

This research assesses whether the presence of noise elements in a visual display affects the detection of target letters at the perceptual or feature extraction level of information processing and whether (a) input or processing channels operate in an independent or interactive fashion and (b) how the spatial relation between signal and noise…

The goal of problem-solving education should be to develop tools for thinking that will constitute a shell or framework of action procedures that can be applied on an ever-changing database. These tools come in the form of heuristics that can be modified and adapted to new situations. (Author/MLW)

Investigates a cognitive model which proposes to account for performance in formation of a goal, selection of an information category, extraction of the information, integration of the information, and recycling until the goal of locating information in documents is met. Indicates that overall performance was facilitated by the model. (JK)

Ability to attend is considered in relation to mental retardation and learning disability. (Author)