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Capelo, Carlos; Dias, Joao Ferreira – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
This study aims to be a contribution to a theoretical model that explains the effectiveness of the learning and decision-making processes by means of a feedback and mental models perspective. With appropriate mental models, managers should be able to improve their capacity to deal with dynamically complex contexts, in order to achieve long-term…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Models, Decision Making, Learning Processes
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Hinings, C. R.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1974
Reports on methods devised to test the strategic-contingencies theory of intraorganizational power which hypothesizes that the power of subunits results from contingent dependences among them created by unspecified combinations of coping with uncertainty. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Hypothesis Testing, Methods, Organization
TALMAGE, HARRIET – 1968
TO TEST THE APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL SYSTEMS APPROACH IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, A PROBLEM WAS PROPOSED IDENTIFYING THE PHENOMENA AND CONTINGENT VARIABLES OF THE CURRICULUM SYSTEM WITHIN THE INPUT-OUTPUT FRAMEWORK. WITH TEACHERS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS OF EDUCATION AS VOLUNTEER PARTICIPANTS, TWO EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS GIVEN…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making