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Wildavsky, Aaron – 1985
In creating and maintaining public safety, risks which entail some amount of danger are necessary. These risks must be rated regarding the amount of benefit and danger they would bring in order to ascertain the worthiness of the risk. It is important to realize that risks can often bring greater safety, that many safety devices themselves involve…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Appropriate Technology, Human Resources, Innovation
Marsh, David D. – 1983
Indicators that the prospects for meaningful curricular reform are not optimistic are developed in this paper. The first premise is that research on curricular reform has been limited in its applicability to practitioner concerns. Another dilemma in the translation of research on curricular reform for practitioners is the continuing wide gap in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Change
Download full textDeVries, David L. – 1983
The majority of empirical studies on performance appraisal (PA) systems focus on the search for the perfect form in which subjective traits are replaced by objective and job-relevant, measurable behaviors. Organizations using a PA system to evaluate their employees struggle with issues of implementation, adaptation, and linkage with other human…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Human Resources, Job Performance
Nevo, David – 1985
Experts' opinion is proposed as a valuable evaluation tool. Advantages of this method include the relative cost effectiveness when compared with other data collection methods. It is a time-saving method important in formative evaluation when a decision must be made concerning implementation of a course of action. When experts are carefully…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Credibility, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Deavers, Kenneth L. – 1987
Knowledge of major economic forces shaping the future of rural America provides insights about the likely importance and effectiveness of various broad program alternatives as components of a rural development policy. The rural economic base was transformed during the 1960s and 1970s from a primary dependence on natural resource activities,…
Descriptors: Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Lynch, David M.; And Others – 1986
Through a 1984 nationwide random sample of 371 chief liberal arts academic officers, this study examines respondents' careers and administrative behavior and their reports about the condition of the liberal arts in their institutions. The study describes grants administration, evaluation mechanisms, satisfactions and frustrations, and career…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, College Administration, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Chu, Lily – 1985
Although women are a crucial element in national rural development, their role continues to be neglected in plans and programs for change--especially in Third World countries. In addition to the burden faced by rural people generally in developing countries, women carry a double burden because of their low social status, high illiteracy rate, lack…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Change Strategies, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
