The administrative team is made up of all personnel in the school environment who are directly involved in the instructional process. The principal serves as the team leader responsible for the supervision of instruction in the school and the development of a staff organization which best implements the educational program. Recognizing that modern…

This document presents four articles each suggesting that a systems approach is the most practical way of dealing with the complex problems of university planning and administration. The articles are: Students, Systems and Education as Experience; Specifications for a Management Information System for Universities; Systems Analysis and University…

The lack of substance in many methods courses stems from the lack of a systematic procedure for identifying specific teaching behaviors. Methods courses in general fail to differentiate between learning and teaching. This paper presents a paradigm which can be used for the systematic identification of effective teacher behavior. The three axes of…

Systems analysis and educational technology are powerful concepts, but to date their application to educational systems has been limited. The overall function of the systems analyst has yet to be defined and no operational or theoretical base has been created to support a technology of education or to justify its integration into school…

An effort to develop a classification of various kinds of disadvantegement is aimed at the efficiency that can be gained by providing only those services to those clients who can use them in order to increase their chances of successful placement. The report details some of the elements of the recommended approach: analysis of manpower situations…

This report relates principles of system analysis and work study techniques to library activities in order to aid librarians in their assessment of library work. The meaning and methods of system analysis and work study are explored and the system concepts of organization purpose, work goals and performance objectives are defined and applied to…

The purposes of the proposed system are to provide a standard operating procedure for a systematic and effective handling of project-type study items as differentiated from informational-type items; to assign definite singular responsibility for projects; to suggest specific sequential steps to be taken in the preparation of the project report;…

The purpose of this article is to set forth a conceptual framework to help educational administrators understand the applications and potential of data processing activities in their institutions. It is expected that such a framework will provide a basis for data processing decisions and direction for future data processing activities. The model…

This report provides a detailed description of an education program cost model designed to accept descriptions of the size and composition of resources used in a particular program and translate them into an estimate of program cost, for convenient comparison of alternatives. The model also translates ("crosswalks") the program budget…

This document is a discussion of a systemized approach to education theory and practice, especially as it applies to performance-based teacher education. The author uses as the basis of his discussion the physical sciences and their use of approximation models (an illustration of this use is the historical development of the description of matter…

Capitalizing on the potential of a systems approach requires continuous recognition that the purpose of an educational institution is to help human beings grow and develop. All people affected by the program of a school system should reach consensus on issues where possible and clarify issues that need additional study and dialogue. A school…

This document methodically traces the development of the fundamental concepts of systems thinking in education from Harbert to contemporary innovators. The discussion explains narrative models, concentrating on educational flowcharting techniques and mathematical models related to developments in engineering and physical science. The presentation…

Resource acquisition is a general process active in all social organizations. The relative success of organizational resource mobilization determines whose goals and values will be met. Several factors impinge on resource mobilization, including suborganizational levels, technological sophistication, professionalization, and unionization.…

The paradigm outlined in this paper is designed to aid in writing scenarios of alternative futures. Specifically the author outlines major conditions and processes in social life which should provide a scheme to be used in constructing or in criticizing scenarios developed by other methods. This scheme should provide assistance in several ways: 1)…

As one part of the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Social Service Aide Project, Prairie State College conducted Pilot A program to test and evaluate model career ladders and a core curriculum for the human services areas. Success included: (1) The college has successfully used methods of task analysis to expand the number of human…