A field study was conducted to determine whether a general systems model was applicable to an antipoverty agency. The primary criterion for auditing the effectiveness of such an agency was "communication adaptation." The uniqueness and universality of the methodology employed allowed for accurate auditing. Ideal and empirically-derived…

Described is the Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System (SER-LARS), a curriculum management system for several areas of exceptionality developed by the National Learning Resource Center of Pennsylvania; and briefly viewed are other curriculum management system efforts in Pennsylvania. Problems of building objectives…

This unit studies enquiry as a type of educational goal and examines ways in which the teaching of enquiry is becoming a key emphasis in elementary and secondary schools. The unit's objectives focus on the definition and requirements for enquiry-focused instruction, a rationale for enquiry-focused instruction, the relations between ideas and…

Research in art education must deal with the structure-in-process of creating, including both cognitive and intuitive approaches of human understanding. The Structural-Existential (S-E) Model can analyze this paradox. To exemplify the theoretical arguments, the author uses excerpts from contexts of creating in art. (SJL)

The article is concerned with the phenomenon of numerical marks, awarded for students' work, regressing to the mean when a number of components are amalgamated to achieve an overall mark. It is shown that such an effect is largely inevitable and one possible way of overcoming the problem is presented. (Author)

Understanding the developmental characteristics of middle school boys and girls and the contribution which this understanding can make to an effective teaching/learning situation should be priority for middle school teachers. Discusses salient factors for middle school effectiveness, with the focus on teacher preparation, and provides some…

A heuristic model is presented for the diagnosis and treatment of families in stress. A systems approach and psychoanalytic concepts are integrated to understand and modify dysfunctional behavior transmitted across generations. (Author)

Conventional courses in geographical data analysis have major problems of student background, statistical validity, geographical relevance, and intellectual inertia. An alternative approach, based upon the methods of data analysis advocated by Tukey, is proposed. For journal availability, see SO 506 593. (Author)

Examines the important role that communication can play in the implementation of organizational change and discusses the case history of a personnel-oriented change in a specific organization from the perspective of the communication model to illustrate its proper use. (TA)

Assesses the academic merit of an innovative undergraduate program designed to teach students the importance of critical thinking skills and social science concepts. As a result of these tests, students did improve their knowledge of some critical thinking skills relative to control. (Author)

This paper attempts to explicate a model of child maltreatment as a problem of family asynchrony-i.e., as a mismatch of parent to child and of family to neighborhood and community. The problem is best understood as an issue in the study of the ecology of family life. (Author)

Two lessons which utilize the inquiry approach comprise a case study to investigate prosocial and antisocial behavior in emergency situations. The article also presents a decision-making model of bystander intervention. (Author/DB)

Concludes that if we do find ourselves in a situation of multiple paradigmatic perspectives on educational research, then it is not appropriate to think in the near future of there being a 'ground synthesis' of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. If the two major paradigms do exist as outlined here, and neither finds its present framework…

If social work is to fulfill its central mission of helping individuals, groups, and communities resolve social problems, it must develop problem-oriented theories and intervention strategies. Particularly needed are models of practice that are capable of being tested through scientific methods and that are addressed to specific, well-defined…

Summarizes Karl Weick's Model of Organizing including its advantages and limitations and tests one of the claims fundamental to Weick's argument. (MH)