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US Department of Education, 2006
This issue of the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center's "ERCMExpress" focuses on integrating students with special needs and disabilities into emergency response and crisis management planning. Meeting the needs of students with disabilities and special needs in the event of an emergency does not have to be…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Disabilities, Administrative Organization, Crisis Management
Heslin, J. Alexander, Jr. – 1996
In senior-level undergraduate research courses in Computer Information Systems (CIS), students are required to read and assimilate a large volume of current research literature. One course objective is to demonstrate to the student that there are patterns or models or paradigms of research. A new approach in identifying research paradigms is…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Higher Education, Information Systems
Laasonen, Raimo – 1991
This paper presents a theoretical study conducted as part of a larger research project concerning personality as an educational phenomenon. In contrast to most approaches, which view personality from the outside, this approach employs systems analysis to examine how individuals identify their personalities in varying subenvironments of a social…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Identification, Interpersonal Competence
King, James W. – 1991
Chaos offers educational communications and technology new systems' tools and ideas; i.e., it provides the system with a deterministic "I don't know" state within which new activity patterns can be generated. Previous characterizations and paradigms of systems stated that simple systems behaved in simple ways, complex behaviors implied complex…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Technology
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Buss, Allan R. – Higher Education, 1975
The predicted long-term undesirable effects of young academicians not entering the university are considered in light of systems theory and generation theory, and recommendations are made regarding the need for greater correspondence between university goals and society's needs if the university is to regain critical inputs. (Editor/JT)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Sociology, Higher Education, Social Change
Milkovich, George T.; Mahoney, Thomas A. – Personnel Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Computer Assisted Instruction, Management Games
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Hawley, Peggy; Chamley, John D. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1975
This article describes a comprehensive system analysis in which students evaluated their educational experience on such dimensions as faculty-student communications and decision making, psychological closeness, freedom to express deviant views, sexual and racial bias, and the degree to which the program climate encouraged them to be active rather…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation, Faculty Evaluation
Perry, Willis J., Jr.; And Others – 1988
This paper summarizes a preferred design of organizational effectiveness studies of small rural school districts. The preferred design consists of five major and mostly sequential steps: (1) considering a large number of complex policy questions associated with the issue of organizational effectiveness efforts; (2) deciding on the technical issue…
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Theories
Acker, Stephen R.; Albarran, Alan B. – 1988
This sociotechnical analysis assesses the effects on the educational environment of migrating from the currently fragmented analog system to an environment dominated by integrated digital telecommunications systems. An integrated telecommunications channel is at the heart of the design for an ISDN (integrated services digital network). ISDN is a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Digital Computers, Higher Education, Networks
Karrer, Urs – 1987
Arguing that the production system for computer courseware has a strong impact on quality courseware development, this report offers an introduction into the relationships between instructional system design and software engineering, and investigates courseware quality as a means of identifying quality enhancement factors that can make the…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Instructional Design
Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals, Chicago, IL. – 1982
The Certificate in Computer Programming (CCP) Examination is conducted by the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals (ICCP) to identify qualified computer professionals in various spheres of computer technology. The CCP Examinations are focused on programming skills and are designed for recognition of competent senior-level…
Descriptors: Certification, Computer Science, Item Analysis, Occupational Tests
Deppa, Joan – 1982
To address the question of why newspapers tend to become more and more fragmented internally and to propose a model of the interrelationships between the newspaper and its "operating environment," this paper draws on recent work by organizational theorists. Beginning by examining the central goal of newspapers, the first section suggests that the…
Descriptors: Journalism, Models, News Reporting, Newspapers
Cabello-Argandona, Roberto; Haro, Roberto Peter – 1977
This study focuses on factors contributing to the low level of effectiveness of library and information services to the Spanish speaking community as reported in the literature. It analyzes, using an open system approach, models developed by public and academic libraries to serve the Spanish speaking population. Problems contributing to the…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Libraries, Library Education, Library Services
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Johnstone, James N. – 1973
In this paper, discussion is restricted to indicators of educational system performance. By "educational system" is meant that system that is formally established within a country for the purpose of providing education according to the UNESCO definition of the term. What is said generally applies to indicators in other fields of the social…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Criteria
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Goulet, Denis – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975
After defining technology and technology transfer, the author discusses product-embodied, process-embodied and person-embodied technologies. The five major antagonisms at play in international technology transfers are related and the manner by which a country may select, choose, and adopt the appropriate technology is investigated. (BT)
Descriptors: Culture, Developing Nations, Development, Industrialization
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