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Download full textCollins, Allan; Brown, John Seely – 1986
Because of its ability to record and represent process, the computer can provide a powerful, motivating, and as yet untapped tool for focusing the students' attention directly on their own thought processes and learning through reflection. Properly abstracted and structured, the computational medium can capture the processes by which a novice or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Environment
Tatsuoka, Kikumi K.; Tatsuoka, Maurice M. – 1986
The rule space model permits measurement of cognitive skill acquisition, diagnosis of cognitive errors, and detection of the strengths and weaknesses of knowledge possessed by individuals. Two ways to classify an individual into his or her most plausible latent state of knowledge include: (1) hypothesis testing--Bayes' decision rules for minimum…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Testing
Agency for Instructional Television, Bloomington, IN. – 1982
A content analysis was conducted for all 60 programs of ThinkAbout, an instructional television series designed to strengthen the reasoning skills of fifth and sixth graders and to review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and study skills. The study comprised separate analyses of three concerns: (1) demographic characteristics of…
Descriptors: Bias, Content Analysis, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Wholeben, Brent Edward – 1985
A number of key issues facing elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educational administrators during retrenchment require a hierarchical decision-modeling approach. This paper identifies and discusses the use of a hierarchical multiple-alternatives modeling formulation (computer-based) that compares and evaluates a group of solution…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Simulation, Consolidated Schools, Decision Making
Schultz, Karen A. – 1985
This report was part of the total scope of The Microcomputers and Middle School Problem Solving project. It employed representational models during problem solving in order to study: (1) observable patterns in self-directed use of representational models; (2) correlations between use of models and problem-solving ability; and (3) the motives of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Oriented Programs, Grade 7
Barnette, J. Jackson – 1977
Organizational development (OD) is a systematic approach to (1) identifying the needs, problems, and objectives of an organization; (2) providing feedback needed for decisions regarding design and implementation of change strategies; (3) implementing and monitoring actions; and (4) evaluating their effects. Decisions in all phases of OD are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Programs
Andersson, Alf; Bengtsson, Margot – 1979
A project was undertaken at the University of Lund in Sweden to study the following two problems: identification and style of problem-solving in relation to the choice by women of arts subjects and science subjects respectively at the university; and identification and style of problem-solving in relation to research focus and research ability.…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Cognitive Style, College Students, Creativity
Staskey, Paul J., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of the 1980 annual forum of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) on the topics of meeting the challenges of the eighties by redirecting resources for renewal are presented. Contents include the following addresses: "Planning: An Adaptive Process," by Barbara S. Uehling; "Catastrophe Models in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Planning, Decision Making
Bough, Max, Ed. – Journal of Children and Youth, 1979
This journal provides 12 brief articles focused on open education. Topics explored include (1) open education and reading, (2) mainstreaming, (3) characteristics of an open teacher, (4) administration of an open concept school, (5) an existential methodology in the language arts, (6) social studies in open education, (7) open education in early…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Programs, Individualized Reading
MILLER, DONALD R. – 1967
OPERATION PEP REPRESENTS A DESIGNFUL ATTEMPT ON THE PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY IN CALIFORNIA TO PLAN, DESIGN, AND IMPLEMENT A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PLANNERS AND MANAGERS. THE BASIC CONTENT OF INSTRUCTION WILL BE DERIVED THROUGH THE ADAPTIVE TRANSLATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY TO THE CONTEXT OF…
Descriptors: Administrators, Charts, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Clowes, Darrel A.
A short exercise is presented designed to show in 45-90 minutes some of the aspects of simulation gaming as an educational tool. The simulation involves participants acting as members of a Community Advisory Council to the Board of Trustees and the President of a community college, meeting to discuss budget problems. The council represents diverse…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Budgeting, College Administration, College Governing Councils
Weinman, Janice J.; Wolner, Theodore – 1976
The principles of structure and procedure for innovative organizations articulated by both postbureaucratic essayists and the organization theorists of innovation are identified. The conditions necessary to generate innovation--small, collegial, problem-solving groups; autonomy of line professionals; separation of planning from the process of…
Descriptors: Administration, Boards of Education, Bureaucracy, Case Studies
Sebolt, Alberta P.; Clegg, Ambrose A., Jr. – 1969
In the planning phase of this ESEA Title III Project, a learning unit was developed to serve as an outline for the first draft of the model. The field-lab approach is stressed in the belief that the "real world" offers a unique learning opportunity, since it includes the "how" of living as well as the inquiry process of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Resources, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Design
Maguire, Louis M. – 1970
Based on a review of 500 sources dealing with change, this presentation sets forth the practical applications of change literature for school administrators. The report concludes that change is a term neither commonly used nor commonly understood, and that ther e exist few scientifically developed (i.e., theoretically based and empirically tested…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Change, Concept Formation, Conflict Resolution
Stolurow, Lawrence M. – 1968
Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) attacks one of the greatest problems of education--how to get sufficient variety in educational materials to teach each individual without requiring a group of trained personnel to prepare all possible variations. CAI permits individualization electronically. CAI can be used to train problem solving, for drill…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs, Game Theory
