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Cook, Desmond L. – 1980
This document, one of a series of reports examining the possible contribution of other disciplines to evaluation methodology, describes the major elements of general systems theory (GST), cybernetics theory (CT) and management control theory (MCT). The author suggests that MCT encapsulates major concerns of evaluation since it reveals that…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Decision Making, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Kincaid, D. Lawrence – 1980
Expressing the need for a description of communication that is equally applicable to all the social sciences, this report develops a general model of the communication process based upon the principle of convergence as derived from basic information theory and cybernetics. It criticizes the linear, one-way models of communication that have…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communications, Cybernetics, Information Networks
Koo, Charles M. – 1981
Noting that China has undergone tremendous social change in its three decades under the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, this paper contends that such change has triggered tension that upsets the equilibrium of the entire social system. The paper uses Talcott Parson's cybernetic communication model to explain the societal level changes that have…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics

Scheerens, Jaap – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1997
Reviews models and theories on effective schooling. Discusses four rationality-based organization theories and a fifth perspective, chaos theory, as applied to organizational functioning. Discusses theory-embedded principles flowing from these theories: proactive structuring, fit, market mechanisms, cybernetics, and self-organization. The…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Chaos Theory, Cybernetics, Elementary Secondary Education

Spink, Amanda; Losee, Robert M. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1996
As Information Retrieval (IR) has evolved, it has become a highly interactive process, rooted in cognitive and situational contexts. Consequently the traditional cybernetic-based IR model does not suffice for interactive IR or the human approach to IR. Reviews different views of feedback in IR and their relationship to cybernetic and social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cybernetics, Feedback, Information Retrieval
Schwier, Richard A. – 1993
A classification scheme for multimedia interaction is described based on the degree of control and type of cognitive engagement experienced by learners in prescriptive, democratic, and cybernetic independent learning environments. Reactive, proactive, and mutual levels of interaction and their associated functions and transactions are discussed.…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cybernetics, Democracy