This paper presents a conceptual framework for the future study and development of new structures for organizing education in metropolitan areas. Intended as a step toward development of general organizational rules, it attempts to (1) refine and reduce to a general rule the concepts of organization, organizational change, and organizational…

Systems approaches, developed in World War II for military and business operations, have been applied increasingly to educational affairs. Educational systems analysis has received widespread usage in finance and accounting, and has also been successfully applied to information systems, instructional systems development, school design and…

A gulf exists between what is known about administration and how this knowledge is used to improve administrative practice. A pilot project, to provide one bridge from theory to practice through an operational model, applies systems analysis to the administration of school districts. The completed operational model, developed in the Maryvale…

An Educational Resources Management System (ERMS) provides a model for adapting a planning-programing-budgeting system (PPBS) to decisionmaking in local educational districts. Initially, educators set the educational goals of their districts, from which programs are designed to produce outcomes compatible with the initial objectives. Evaluation,…

The MITRE Corporation provided technical support to the Joint Center for Urban Studies in its Health Information System Project by developing a structured approach for the characterization and analysis of System Options. The approach was designed to stimulate relevant dialog and aid decision processes in the technically diverse, politically…

Since 1955, six major thrusts of the school reform movement have sought to give direction, substance, and meaning to education: Content revision, educational technology, equalized opportunity for children from poverty environments and from minority groups, individualized instruction, organizational flexibility, and teacher renewal. Organizational…

The report of the first phase of a six-phase, longrange project to develop procedures for evaluating elementary and secondary schools briefly outlines the total project, lists the objectives of the initial phase, defines general procedures of the project, and describes the several institutional and personal components of the project. Utilizing…

In addition to updating material covered in the second edition and providing more illustrative material, this edition attempts to offer a systematic approach to the integration of instructional aids into the curriculum. It discusses the use of significant new developments in instructional technology-multimedia packages or kits, programed…

This monograph presents the rationale for the development of a new instructional system; it is part of an effort, sponsored by a consortium of Utah school districts and the State Board of Education, to introduce and implement a systems approach to instruction in Utah public schools. The first half of the paper is a critique of the present…

One of two volumes of the report of a seminar attended by 232 vocational-technical leaders from 37 states and the District of Columbia, this document covers the general sessions and the sub-seminar on teaching disadvantaged youth. General session presentations on teacher education by Martin W. Essex, Virgil S. Lagomarcino, and William G. Loomis…

Project Quest, "New Designs for Innovative Approaches to Health Instruction through Inter-District Planning", is a comprehensive health instruction program (K-12) which was developed on a systems approach. Five major student objectives were established: (1) physical health, (2) mental health, (3) social health, (4) community health, and (5)…

Utilization of the principles of instructional systems development and of educational technology can eliminate the inadequacies of instructional program development by the (usually untrained) teacher responsible. The four military services have created an interservice committee on Instructional Systems Development, which has created an…

A historical method of inquiry can be applied to an experimental teacher training program, specifically, the Ford Training and Preparation Program (FTPP). The historical method requires gathering a lot of loose ideas and events that have been part of the project and hanging them together in an integrated way. To achieve this, two organizing…

This paper identifies the most critical factors pertinent to career guidance as: (1) use of humanistic psychology, (2) development of decision competency, (3) career planning and selection, (4) educational planning and relevance, and (5) the development of positive human relations skills as marketable skills. It describes computer-based programs…

In this book, originally presented as the third series of H. Rowan Gaither Lectures in Systems Science at the University of California (Berkeley), are examined the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decision making in the government's "social action" programs--education, health, manpower training, and income maintenance. Drawing on…