This book suggests alternative strategies and methods for construct validation, research, quality assessment of schools, and design and evaluation of new approaches to instruction. It is addressed to educational managers, educational researchers, and to faculty members and graduate students in education. The author deals with four problem areas in education and educational administration by suggesting that newly developed alternative scientific strategies and methods be applied to the problems. These problems are (1) research methodology in the teaching and learning process, (2) narrow professionalism, (3) curricular processes that fail to deal with the processes by which children maximize their human potential, and (4) a lack of perception of the nature and application of systems approaches to public schools. The book concludes with an extensive, 33-page bibliography organized by chapter and topic. (Author/DN)