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Ellison Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Communities consist of interconnected sub-systems, such as schools, healthcare organizations, and businesses, each fulfilling specific functions that contribute to the overall well-being of the community. Effective community responses to crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require collaboration across these sectors. However,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Decision Making
Baligar, Preethi; Mallibhat, Kaushik; Kavale, Sanjeev; Joshi, Gopalkrishna – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This study identifies the attributes of complexity that can be incorporated into engineering design problems at first-year undergraduate engineering projects. The findings are compiled as a set of guidelines to aid engineering educators in crafting design problems. Background: Engineering professionals solve complex problems like…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Problem Solving, College Freshmen
McKee, Shari Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Between 2002 and 2012, information technology (IT) procedural decisions related to technology, fraud, bias, greed, and misleading information increased cost by more than $44 billion. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore IT professionals' experiences of IT procedural decisions. The research questions were intended to learn from…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Professional Personnel, Decision Making, Corporations
Akcaoglu, Mete – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
Today's complex and fast-evolving world necessitates young students to possess design and problem-solving skills more than ever. One alternative method of teaching children problem-solving or thinking skills has been using computer programming, and more recently, game-design tasks. In this pre-experimental study, a group of middle school…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Games
Ellen, Moriah E.; Lavis, John N.; Wilson, Michael G.; Grimshaw, Jeremy; Haynes, R. Brian; Ouimet, Mathieu; Raina, Parminder; Gruen, Russell – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2014
Health system managers and policy makers need timely access to high quality, policy-relevant systematic reviews. Our objectives were to obtain managers' and policy makers' feedback about user-friendly summaries of systematic reviews and about tools related to supporting or assessing their use. Our interviews identified that participants prefer key…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Feedback (Response), Change Agents, Public Health
Gordon-Donaldson, Ella Shirl – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A phenomenological study was conducted examining the decision factors of underrepresented minority (URM) students' lack of plans for graduate school in the college of technology. Research conducted based on Systems Theory found that information, people, and organizations influence students (Berger, 2002). Comparisons were drawn about accuracy…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Study
Peck, Laura R.; Kim, Yushim; Lucio, Joanna – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
This study addresses validity issues in evaluation that stem from Ernest R. House's book, "Evaluating With Validity". The authors examine "American Journal of Evaluation" articles from 1980 to 2010 that report the results of policy and program evaluations. The authors classify these evaluations according to House's "major approaches" typology…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Behavioral Objectives, Validity, Evaluation Research
Capelo, Carlos; Lopes, Ana Isabel; Mata, Ana – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) which is based on a systems perspective of the business strategy and performance measurement. Many organizations around the world are using the BSC to define, implement and manage strategy. Nevertheless there exist studies that identify problems and limitations associated with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Performance Based Assessment, Learning Theories
Diener, Lori H.; McGee, Heather M.; Miguel, Caio F. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2009
The aim of this paper is to illustrate how to conduct a Behavioral Systems Analysis (BSA) to aid in the design of targeted performance improvement interventions. BSA is a continuous process of analyzing the right variables to the right extent to aid in planning and managing performance at the organization, process, and job levels. BSA helps to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Systems Analysis, Performance Technology, Industrial Psychology
Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Swanborn, Machteld S. L. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
School inspections are expected to have an impact on data use and improvement of schools. Schools are expected to generate data (e.g., self-evaluation reports and student achievement results) as part of the inspection process. This process, in turn, also generates data (e.g., inspection reports) for school improvement. The high-stakes context in…
Descriptors: Inspection, Accountability, Evaluation Utilization, Inferences
10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems: Inaugural State Analysis
Early Childhood Data Collaborative (NJ1), 2011
State policymakers are increasingly focused on closing the achievement gap and preparing all students to succeed in school and life. However, college and career readiness begins long before students enter high school or even a classroom. Differences in children's abilities appear as early as the first year of life, and research has shown that…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, State Policy, State Standards, Early Childhood Education
Oliver, Damian – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2010
Complexity is a feature common to all vocational education and training (VET) governance arrangements, due to the wide range of students VET systems caters for, and the number of stakeholders involved in both decision making and funding and financing. In this article, Pierre and Peter's framework of governance is used to examine complexity in VET…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, Decision Making, Participative Decision Making
Ranguelov, Stanislav; de Coster, Isabelle; Forsthuber, Bernadette; Noorani, Sogol; Ruffio, Philippe – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This seventh edition of "Key Data on Education in Europe" retains its main special feature which is the combination of statistical data and qualitative information to describe the organisation and functioning of education systems in Europe. The present 2009 edition maintains the subject-based structure defined by the previous one but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Data, Comparative Education, Systems Analysis
Ahamer, Gilbert – Simulation & Gaming, 2006
SURFING GLOBAL CHANGE (SGC) serves as a procedural shell for attaining sustainable solutions for any interdisciplinary issue and is intended for use in advanced university courses. The participants' activities evolve through five levels from individual argumentation to molding one's own views for the "common good." The paradigm of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, Ethics, Problem Based Learning
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers