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Boyle, Fiona; Cook, Elizabeth J. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
The evaluation of teaching quality and practice is increasingly important in higher education and usually done via student surveys (quantitative data) alone. Much less attention is given to teachers' self-evaluations of teaching practice (qualitative data). This emphasis on quantitative over qualitative data can result in incomplete and biased…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Beach, Derek; Pedersen, Rasmus Brun – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
The last decade has witnessed resurgence in the interest in studying the causal mechanisms linking causes and effects. This article games through the methodological consequences that adopting a systems understanding of mechanisms has for what types of cases we should select when using in-depth case study methods like process tracing. The article…
Descriptors: Influences, Case Studies, Systems Approach, Selection Criteria
Ghosh, Biswadip – Information Systems Education Journal, 2019
The board of Fiserv (an investment management company) has already decided to close the business no matter what. Agile Financials has agreed to buyout Fiserv and retain part of the Fiserv staff if the purchase deal closes. However, if too many of Fiserv's clients left with their accounts or if the customer satisfaction index (CSI) continued to…
Descriptors: Satisfaction, Consumer Economics, Organizational Change, Change Strategies
Serafini, Ellen J. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Drawing on theoretical insights from a complex dynamic systems framework, this work explores the ways that learner selves, as they relate to learning and using languages, manifest across different contexts and timescales and emerge in interaction with various factors. First, a broad overview of dynamically-oriented L2 motivation research is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Systems Approach, Learning Motivation
Dumont, Deborah Elizabeth – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2021
Helicopter parenting is a relatively new phenomenon that describes a specific kind of overparenting that is focused on the well-being and success of children that can impact young adults' general sense of life satisfaction, overall mood, and the development of necessary life skills. Using Bowen theory, the author will illustrate through a case…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Well Being, Parent Aspiration
Urban, Jennifer Brown; Linver, Miriam R.; Thompson, Julie; Davidson, Ronnie; Lorimer, David – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
The importance of engaging in high quality program evaluation is a generally accepted principle underscored by external pressure from funders. High quality evaluation necessarily begins with good evaluation planning. This paper outlines Evolutionary Evaluation and specifically the Systems Evaluation Protocol, an approach that emphasizes…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Values Education, Systems Approach, Case Studies
Brailas, Alexios; Koskinas, Konstantinos; Alexias, George – Cogent Education, 2017
This paper focuses on the conceptual model of an academic course inspired by complexity theory. In the proposed conceptual model, the aim of teaching is to form a learning organization: a knowledge community with emergent properties that cannot be reduced to any linear combination of the properties of its parts. In this approach, the learning of…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Class Activities, Models, Teaching Methods
Ziomek-Daigle, Jolie; Goodman-Scott, Emily; Cavin, Jason; Donohue, Peg – Professional Counselor, 2016
A multi-tiered system of supports, including Response to Intervention and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, is a widely utilized framework implemented in K-12 schools to address the academic and behavioral needs of all students. School counselors are leaders who facilitate comprehensive school counseling programs and demonstrate…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Response to Intervention, Positive Behavior Supports
Chatterji, Madhabi; Green, Lawrence W.; Kumanyika, Shiriki – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
This article summarizes a comprehensive, systems-oriented framework designed to improve the use of a wide variety of evidence sources to address population-wide obesity problems. The L.E.A.D. framework (for "Locate" the evidence, "Evaluate" the evidence, "Assemble" the evidence, and inform "Decisions"),…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Obesity, Scientific Research, Evidence
Kim, Daniel H. – Educational Technology, 2014
The importance of public education has never been greater as we enter the dawn of a new millennium. Innumerable efforts have been focused on improving public education, but the unfortunate result has been an array of fractured, piecemeal efforts. What is needed is a systemic approach to go from "tweaking" to "transforming"…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Case Studies
Van Galen, Dean; Schneider-Rebozo, Lissa; Havholm, Karen; Andrews, Kris – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter presents the state of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin System as an ongoing case study for best practices in systematic, intentional, statewide programming and initiatives connecting undergraduate research and economic development.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Research, Research Projects, Economic Development
BeLue, Rhonda; Carmack, Chakema; Myers, Kyle R.; Weinreb-Welch, Laurie; Lengerich, Eugene J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is being used increasingly to address health disparities and complex health issues. The authors propose that CBPR can benefit from a systems science framework to represent the complex and dynamic characteristics of a community and identify intervention points and potential "tipping points."…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Participatory Research, Community Involvement, Public Health
Edmondson, Jeff; Zimpher, Nancy L. – SUNY Press, 2014
In 2006, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky had been suffering from many of the same challenges facing metro regions across the country. Despite significant investments in education from the public and private sectors, outcomes were alarming: Kindergarten readiness was below fifty percent, and nearly half of the students in the Cincinnati Public…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational History, Metropolitan Areas, Public Schools
Serrano-Velarde, Kathia; Krucken, Georg – European Journal of Education, 2012
Since the early 1990s, European higher education has been undergoing drastic changes with regard to the organisation and governance of academic work. The political emphasis on higher education autonomy and accountability went hand in hand with the introduction of market type steering devices and a new discourse regarding the universities'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Universities, Systems Approach
Wong, Viola Yuk-Yue – Management in Education, 2012
This paper attempts to deal with the elusive nature of quality in quality management, using a case study to examine quality control measures implemented in an academic context and to show an emergent framework for quality enhancement. This paper introduces the concept of the ecology of quality assurance and examines efforts to maintain and advance…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Quality Control, Ecology, Quality Assurance