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Maguad, Ben A. – Education, 2018
The systems view of quality postulates that product or service quality comes as the result of interactions between various components that comprise a production process. In view of this, most problems in the organization, like an institution of higher education, can be attributed to the system. To be effective, any quality improvement initiative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Systems Analysis, Systems Approach, Stakeholders
Truby, William F. – Online Submission, 2017
W. Edwards Deming has suggested 96% of organization performance is a function of the organization's structure. He contends only about 4% of an organization's performance is attributable to the people. This is a fundamental difference as most school leaders work with the basic assumption that 80% of a school's performance is related to staff and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Climate, Administrative Organization
Chaney, Paul – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2012
Using a systems approach, this paper explores the impact of devolution on additional learning needs (ALN) policy in compulsory phase education. Focus is placed on ALN/SEN Codes of Practice, the schools curriculum, teacher training, and the work of education inspectorates and tribunals. Analysis reveals that the move to quasi-federalism in the UK…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Systems Approach, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
Griffiths, Tom G.; Knezevic, Lisa – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2009
This paper begins by connecting cosmopolitanism to notions of universal and particular knowledge in contemporary conditions. Drawing on the work of Immanuel Wallerstein, we then outline a world-systems approach to knowledge. This approach focuses on the capacity of epistemological structures to either reinforce existing inequalities or produce…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Epistemology, Global Approach, Systems Approach
Hayes, Linda J.; Dubuque, Erick M.; Fryling, Mitch J.; Pritchard, Joshua K. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2009
Behavioral systems analyses typically address organizational problems in business and industry. However, to the extent that a behavioral system is an entity comprised of interdependent elements formed by individuals interacting toward a common goal, a scientific enterprise constitutes a behavioral system to which a behavioral systems analysis may…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Systems Analysis, Scientific Enterprise, Investigations
McGee, Heather M.; Diener, Lori H. – Behavior Modification, 2010
This article provides a behavioral systems approach to improve operational performance in health and human service organizations. This article provides six performance truths that are relevant to any organization and a case study from a community mental health network of agencies. A comprehensive analysis, as described here, will help health and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Human Services, Public Agencies, Behavior
Mercer, Charmaine – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
When President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2002, the U.S. national high school graduation rate was 72.6 percent. Today, the national high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high of 81 percent and the number of low-graduation-rate high schools has declined considerably. While this progress is notable,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Finance Reform, Access to Education
Recker, Jan; Alter, Steven – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Recent surveys of information technology management professionals show that understanding business domains in terms of business productivity and cost reduction potential, knowledge of different vertical industry segments and their information requirements, understanding of business processes and client-facing skills are more critical for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Information Systems, Information Technology
van Mierlo, Barbara; Arkesteijn, Marlen; Leeuwis, Cees – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Networks aiming for fundamental changes bring together a variety of actors who are part and parcel of a problematic context. These system innovation projects need to be accompanied by a monitoring and evaluation approach that supports and maintains reflexivity to be able to deal with uncertainties and conflicts while challenging current practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
National Association of State Boards of Education, 2009
The movement to strengthen the nation's workforce by redefining what all students need to learn has profound implications for the design of state assessment systems. The confluence of events--the change in the national and international climate, acknowledgment of long-standing inequities in education opportunity and achievement, and the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, State Boards of Education, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards
Nuhoglu, Hasret – Online Submission, 2008
System Dynamics is a well formulated methodology for analyzing the components of a system including cause-effect relationships and their underlying mathematics and logic, time delays, and feedback loops. It began in the business and manufacturing world, but is now affecting education and many other disciplines. Having inspired by successful policy…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Systems Approach, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science
Ferrer-Balas, D.; Buckland, H. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and RCE-Barcelona in the context of two organisations with a strategic aim to further Education for Sustainable Development. A special emphasis is put in the role that UPC has had in the creation and development of this project,…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Sustainable Development, Systems Analysis, Regional Planning

Madsen, Arnie – Argumentation and Advocacy, 1989
Discusses the trend in academic debate on policy questions toward a wide acceptance of counterplans, encouraging combinations of proposals which appear at face value able to coexist but upon deeper analysis are incompatible. Argues in opposition to this trend by applying concepts from general systems theory to competition. (KEH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Competition, Debate, Debate Format
Wayman, Jeffrey C.; Stringfield, Sam – American Journal of Education, 2006
Student data are gaining increased attention in education, spurred by accountability policies such as those contained in the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. Student data are useful for informing classroom practice, and user-friendly technologies for organizing and accessing data are enabling access by all teachers. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Educational Change, Evaluation Research, Technology Integration
Fleddermann, Richard G. – Engineering Education, 1980
Presented is a description of the evolution and curriculum of the masters program in aeronautical systems at the University of West Florida between 1969 and 1976. An explanation is given of the purpose and outcome of the group theses and research project in which the students taught themselves the systems approach. (SMB)
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Aviation Technology, Case Studies, Engineering Education
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