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Huey T. Chen; Liliana Morosanu; Victor H. Chen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
The Campbellian validity typology has been used as a foundation for outcome evaluation and for developing evidence-based interventions for decades. As such, randomized control trials were preferred for outcome evaluation. However, some evaluators disagree with the validity typology's argument that randomized controlled trials as the best design…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Intervention, Evidence Based Practice
Marcia Joppert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The world has experienced rapid changes, leading to pressing issues such as environmental degradation, social inequality, and resource depletion. As a transdisciplinary field, evaluation has emerged as a crucial tool in addressing these challenges and promoting systemic change. However, concerns have been raised regarding the field's capacity to…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Problem Solving
An Assessment of Key Sustainability Competencies: A Review of Scales and Propositions for Validation
Annelin, Alice; Boström, Gert-Olof – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and provide propositions about survey assessment tools of the key sustainability competencies (KSCs) of education for sustainability. UNESCO points out how education plays an important role in transforming societies towards a sustainable future and achieving the United Nations' sustainable…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Objectives, Social Change
Rockliffe, Andrew; Mckay, Jane – Research in Education, 2023
In this paper, we present a novel approach to defining, teaching, and assessing creativity by examining its origins and delineating the processes involved. The rationale for introducing this framework developed from studying existing thinking and questioning the current metrics for measuring creativity, which we posit are unfit for purpose. We…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Learning Processes
Zoller, Uri – Online Submission, 2011
Given the current striving for "sustainability" and the corresponding paradigms shift in science, technology, R&D, environment perception, economy and politics; e.g., from unlimited growth-to-sustainable development, correction-to-prevention and passive consumption of "goods", culture and education--to active participation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Sustainable Development, Science Education
Wayne, David – Performance Improvement, 2008
Grounded in the work of W. Edwards Deming, this article describes the basics of systems thinking, viewing a business as a system, and contrasts improving a system with solving a problem. The article uses the human body as a metaphor to describe the various aspects of viewing a business as a system at the concept level and maps the Deming cycle,…
Descriptors: Organizational Effectiveness, Figurative Language, Human Body, Problem Solving
Kaufman, Roger; Bowers, Dennis – Performance and Instruction, 1990
Examines the differences between needs assessment and needs analysis as part of the larger process of identifying and resolving problems and opportunities. Proactive and reactive planners are discussed, a system approach is compared with a systems approach, and steps in a systems approach are identified. (10 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Needs Assessment, Problem Solving, Systems Approach
Sharma, Rumesh Kumar – Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
This paper uses a systems-based approach to identify problems associated with organizational learning in various subsystems in an organization. The functionalist model of the systems-based approach is first used to identify the relevant sub systems involved in organizational learning. This is followed by a consideration of key functional sub…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Systems Approach, Problem Solving, Identification

Gooding, Richard Z. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1980
An evaluation methodology based on problem-solving techniques which can be effective and efficient in defining and analyzing problems which impair program performance is described. The model provides a potentially unique cost/benefit methodology for estimating the potential worth of improving program performance. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Models, Problem Solving

Sovie, Margaret D. – Journal of Nursing Administration, 1981
To design cost-effective solutions to nursing practice problems, staff development educators must be able to identify problems accurately. This article presents approaches to problem identification and criteria for problem classification that will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of staff development departments and activities. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Hospitals, Inservice Education
Glenn, Christine G.; And Others – 1981
This paper focuses on the systems approach in family therapy and attempts to further the development of this approach by defining its assumptions and delineating the relationship between the assumptions and their operationalization in assessment and therapy. The first section identifies two basic assumptions of a systemic approach, i.e., that the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Family Attitudes

Ackerson, Jack – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1995
Discusses how to conduct a top-level analysis of training management functions to identify problems within a training system resulting from rapid growth, the acquisition of new departments, or mergers. The data gathering process and analyses are explained, training management functions and activities are described, and root causes and solutions…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training
Frankel, Steven – 1988
This report favors a systems-oriented evaluation for improving minority student achievement, an inclusive approach, which may require funds to be (at least temporarily) withdrawn from other research activities. When financial resources are limited, such an evaluation may focus on a relatively limited range of related evaluation issues. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educationally Disadvantaged
Suchman, J. Richard; And Others – 1975
In accordance with the Army's emphasis on performance-oriented instruction, this project was undertaken to revise the Basic Law Enforcement Course (BLEC) offered by the U.S. Military Police School at Fort Gordon. Through a unique combination of systems engineering, group problem-solving, and peer instruction, an individualized, open-access…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Instruction
Bawden, Richard; Valentine, Ian – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1984
Outlines innovations associated with development of a learning environment designed around problem-solving/situation-improving strategies for farming and other agricultural systems at Australia's Hawkesbury Agricultural College. The situation at the school is described; observations and reflections are noted; and conceptualizations and actions for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Change Strategies, Curriculum Design
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