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Direct linkMcGee, 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
Download full textResearch Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2011
Through special funding by the Ministry of Education and Science in 2008, the Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at Hiroshima University has been able to implement a new research project on the reform of higher education in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. RIHE hosted the third International Workshop on the Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Conferences (Gatherings)
Benson, Angela; Lawler, Cormac; Whitworth, Andrew – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Activity theory (AT) is a powerful tool for investigating "artefacts in use", ie, the ways technologies interrelate with their local context. AT reveals the interfaces between e-learning at the macro- (strategy, policy, "campus-wide" solutions) and the micro-organisational levels (everyday working practice, iterative change, individual…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Management Systems, Comparative Analysis, Educational Technology
Girtz, Suzann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate four attractor states in schools through the perceptions of formal leaders that engaged in and reflected upon school reform regarding the Millennial generation. The term attractor was used as a metaphor for a habitual pattern, gleaned from complexity science which informs of new ways in which to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Scheduling, Architecture, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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
SERRANO, ALBERTO C.; STEDMAN, JAMES M.
USING A CONCEPTUAL MODEL DRAWN FROM SYSTEMS-ORIENTED THINKING AND RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, A LIMITED NUMBER OF SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVEMENT PROBLEMS WERE ANALYZED. SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVERS ARE VIEWED AS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TRANSACTING WITH A VARIETY OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS. THEREFORE, THE FOCUS IS ON FINDING PROBLEM-PRODUCING ELEMENTS IN THE TOTAL…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Psychology, Disadvantaged, Social Systems
Management Control: Systems Thinking Applied to the Development of a Framework for Empirical Studies
Peer reviewedNelson, Edwin G.; Machin, John L. J. – Journal of Management Studies, 1976
Descriptors: Case Studies, Management Systems, Models, Organizational Change
Redekop, David – Engineering Education, 1984
Encourages use of case studies to introduce "real-life" engineering assignments, suggesting that they should be given in a natural order as a series. Describes three such assignments being used at the University of the West Indies. Description, analysis, and design of an existing engineering system is included. (JM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Organizational Development
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
Scott, J. Glenn, Ed.; Ducharme, David J., Ed. – 1972
The six papers in this publication discuss how reasonable planning processes can be established and how budgeting procedures can be related to the wider planning process. In the first selection, K. George Pedersen establishes the current context of educational planning and decisionmaking with emphasis on economic implications, and he outlines…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Budgeting, Case Studies
Lusthaus, Evelyn W.; And Others – 1975
As the problems encountered by big city school systems have increased, the educational establishment has come under sharp attack in some part because professional educators have unilaterally made far reaching decisions, insulated from public scrutiny. In order to voice opposition to these decisions, some community members have begun to form new…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
The Problem of Centralization: Health and Education Policies in Great Britain and the United States.
Hanneman, Robert A.; Hollingsworth, J. Rogers – 1978
The paper compares aspects of decision making in health and education in the United States and Great Britain from 1890-1970. The major purpose is to demonstrate variety in the degree of centralization within the two policy areas during this period. Centralization is defined as the degree to which all resources of a given type are controlled by one…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
