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PDF pending restorationLawton, Stephen B.; And Others – 1979
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of online bibliographic retrieval services and provides an example of its use with the Educational Information System for Ontario (EISO). A systems approach, incorporating traditional categories of input, output, process, and feedback, is used to develop the model; in its…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Education, Evaluation, Input Output Analysis
Pratt, David – 1978
Social, philosophical, and economic pressures are confronting curriculum designers with the major problem of designing instruction which produces consistently high learning despite wide variation in student characteristics. This is essentially a cybernetic question of regulating variety in a system to produce a stable output. It is observed that…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Curriculum Design, Cybernetics, Educational Development
Thompson, Patricia J. – 1984
Those interested in textbook research, theory, and practice need to identify the independent or context variables that influence the making of a textbook--the intervening variables that come into play as textbooks are conceived, developed, and designed--and to show how these impact on the textbook, or dependent variable. To begin, critics and…
Descriptors: Innovation, Input Output Analysis, Publishing Industry, Quality Control
Clevenger, Charles – 1984
The professional development process can be organized as a continuous, multifaceted, proactive, and integrated system that is futures-oriented and focused on adaptation as an essential organizational function. A systems model employing a university professional school as an example is presented. It focuses on professional schools because they lend…
Descriptors: Colleges, Decision Making, Educational Change, Higher Education
Graczyk, Sandra L. – 1987
Based on a doctoral dissertation that involved a study of the nation's 100 most successful school computer systems, this report summarizes the study's purpose, scope, methodology, resultant model, general observations, and future implications. The model is divided into two major sections: (1) strategic planning activities, focusing on computer…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Criteria
Download full textBroom, Glen M. – 1986
The effectiveness of an organizations's adaptive behavior depends on the extent to which public relations concerns are considered in goal setting and program planning. The following five open systems propositions, based on a "functional" paradigm, address the complex relationship between public relations and organizational intelligence and do not…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Decision Making, Historiography, Input Output Analysis
