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Buttram, Joan L.; Stiegelbauer, Suzanne M.; Sturges, Keith M.; Bohlig, E. Michael; Hord, Shirley M. – 2003
In December 2000, the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) began working with low-performing districts and schools as part of a 5-year research and development effort to create and refine a systemic model for improving student achievement in reading or mathematics. SEDL hypothesized that as districts and schools increase their…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
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Arnove, Robert F. – Comparative Education Review, 1980
This essay is a call for world-systems analysis of education. It defines the central features of world-systems analysis, discusses the literature pertaining to the emergence and consolidation of a world economic system, points up some promising research by comparative educationists, and suggests some areas for future research. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Theories
Dhariwal, Mave – 1990
The Engineering Technologies Division of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Canada has developed a systems approach to program review called Competency Profile Development (CPD). This approach utilizes a combination of organizational communication, project management, management-by-objectives, a modified Developing A Curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Engineering Technology, Foreign Countries, Instructional Systems
Sybouts, Ward – 1992
Because schools must operate in a changing environment, educators must manage change whether they wish to or not. Administrators must plan accordingly, and the best plans arise from a solid theoretical base. This book provides that base, by drawing on systems theory to develop effective approaches to strategic and operational planning in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delphi Technique, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Grubb, W. Norton; McDonnell, Lorraine M. – 1991
A study examined local work-related education and training institutions from a system perspective. Information was obtained through field interviews of staff and administrators in secondary education, community colleges and technical facilities, and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and similar programs, as well as record data from eight…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Coordination, Community Programs, Educational Cooperation
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in transportation systems. The course, which has been designed for students in grades 9 and 10, is intended to provide a basic understanding of transportation systems and the role of energy systems in transportation. The first two sections discuss the guide's development within the framework of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 10, Grade 9, High Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in the sequential tasks that change a designer's idea into a completed product. Emphasis is placed on the design of a product and the manufacturing system needed to produce it. The first two sections discuss the guide's development within the framework of North Carolina's efforts to improve…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Design, Engineering, Grade 11
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in the history of the development of transportation systems and the individual elements in such systems. The course is designed to break transportation systems down into their individual components so as to make it possible to study system types, media, technical elements, and environmental…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 11, Grade 12, High Schools
HARTLEY, HARRY J. – 1968
PLANNING-PROGRAMMING-BUDGETING SYSTEMS (PPBS) ARE INTENDED TO FACILITATE THE KINDS OF INFORMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS WHICH FURNISH ADMINISTRATORS WITH A MORE COMPLETE BASIS FOR RATIONAL CHOICE. NEUTRAL ON THE ISSUES OF COST REDUCTION, PPBS IS DESIGNED TO FOSTER ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY. ADVANTAGES WHICH IT OFFERS OVER TRADITIONAL PRACTICES INCLUDE--(1)…
Descriptors: Budgets, Collective Bargaining, Data Analysis, Educational Planning
Dudgeon, Paul J. – 1974
A program based on instructional systems technology was developed at Canadore College as a means of devising the optimal learning experience for each individual student. The systems approach is used to solve educational problems through a process of analysis, synthesis, modeling, and simulation, based on the LOGOS (Language for Optimizing…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1972
Southwest Regional Laboratory IDCMS (Instructional Development Control and Monitoring System) will be a flexible hardware system for controlling and monitoring instruction and research in the laboratory setting. This paper seeks to introduce potential users to the system and software designers to representative challenges that system exploitation…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices
Vento, Charles Joseph – 1969
A new transmission system utilizing the already existing media is imperative to the efficient utilization of the audiovisual materials available as teaching aids to the educator. Current practices in audiovisual distribution cause frequent frustrations in availability. It is also difficult to find up-to-date cataloguing that teachers can refer to.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Instruction, Automation
Scott, J. Glenn, Ed.; Ducharme, David J., Ed. – 1972
The six papers in this publication discuss how reasonable planning processes can be established and how budgeting procedures can be related to the wider planning process. In the first selection, K. George Pedersen establishes the current context of educational planning and decisionmaking with emphasis on economic implications, and he outlines…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Budgeting, Case Studies
Tindal, Gerald; And Others – 1993
An increasing number of elementary school sites have begun to implement nongraded, multiage, primary developmental learning environments. Nongraded primaries are more than just a loosening of the age limits and a changing of the promotion strategies. This broad educational restructuring strategy provides a unique opportunity for creating new…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
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
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