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Continuing the Dialogue
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Raven, John – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
In this article John Raven responds to commentaries on his article, "Diving in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Pre-Requisites to Evidence-Based Interventions" (EJ1248321). Herein, he provides dialogues with individual authors that relate closely to his original theme and which seemed to merit further elaboration. He briefly addresses: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Problems, Educational Policy, Values
The Primacy of Values and Ideologies in Human Services Evaluation.
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Wolfensberger, Wolf – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
The concept of ideology is discussed. An evaluation design that is based on values and ideologies is advocated so that it can be applied to services in different categories and still produce valid comparisons. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Human Services, Systems Approach, Values
Evaluation Models: A Question of Purpose Not Terminology.
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Borich, Gary D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1983
Evaluation models have been taken as methodologies for actually conducting evaluations, instead of as persuasions or frameworks within which more specific constructs and methods must be placed. Although evaluation models do not provide methodologies, they do provide a guide for thinking about how an evaluation could be conducted. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Models, Program Evaluation
Contemporary Issues in Theory in Educational Administration.
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Willower, Donald J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1980
Deals with three types of philosophical issues surrounding theory development: epistemology, abstraction and the concept of system, and values and ideology. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Epistemology, Organizational Theories, Philosophy
Meeting Accountability or Evading Responsibility.
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Johnson, William R. – Theory into Practice, 1979
The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Objectives, Educational Responsibility, Outcomes of Education
An Introduction to Value Analysis.
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Takacs, Kalman – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1983
Emphasizes consciousness as a quality which differentiates a human being from other living organisms. Excerpts various perspectives that are value-analyzed to illustrate two assumptions: (1) thinking leads to valuing and values and (2) all psychological perspectives are based upon some value system which can be identified. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Position Papers
Leadership and American Indian Values: The Tribal College Dilemma.
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Badwound, Elgin; Tierney, William G. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1988
Outlines the rational model of organizational governance in higher education, and describes conflicts between its assumptions and American Indian values underlying the tribal college mission. Suggests a cultural model of organization as more appropriate for tribal college administration. (SV)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, American Indian Education, College Administration, Culture Conflict
Education in Crisis: Preparing Students for the 21st Century.
Small, Michele Geslin – Curriculum Review, 1983
Advocates a curriculum based on the knowledge of the past, the awareness of the fast-changing present, and the planning of alternative futures--enriched by a nonlinear systemic approach to knowledge and infused with a cross-cultural and global consciousness--to produce well-educated, well-adjusted, responsible, and mature students. Sixteen…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs, Educational Trends