The final report on a project designed to develop a model learning system for alcohol abuse and alcoholism prevention contains format details of four specific programs. Each program is geared to obtain maximum success in reinforcing responsible behavior, to change learner behavior, and to insure effective implementation in a variety of…

This five-part document presents three approaches to research on instructional improvement, with the final two sections concentrating on problems and implications for diagnostic prescriptive instruction. Part 1 reviews comparative instructional effectiveness studies. Part 2 discusses the Trait-Treatment Interaction Approach (TTI) which is…

Program budgeting is a system that focuses on outcomes rather than on inputs, relates resources to outcomes, includes more than one time interval in the budget document, and states outcomes in measurable terms. If the assumptions underlying program budgeting are accepted, the system can be an effective tool for identifying new ways to do jobs…

A team of experts examined eight representative examples of industrialized building systems in six countries to determine the origins of the system and the approach taken by its originators; the reasons that led school building agencies to adopt the system; the quality and other characteristics of the finished product; system costs compared with…

The National Commission on the Financing of Post Secondary Education (NCFPE) has developed a model of student response to alternative financing plans, and has used this computer model to evaluate several alternatives in terms of enrollments and costs. The model predicted enrollments by types of institutions and family income and costs based on the…

The use of multivariate techniques in the study of human communication gives the researcher the opportunity to view man's behavior in greater totality than the univariate methods. Human behavior can then be viewed in terms of process. Smith, in discussing the idea of process in communication research, states that "more complete explanations will…

This guide to simplified performance management approaches contains five sections. The first section, entitled "Simple Techniques for Managing an Innovation," is written from the viewpoint of a principal as manager. It describes how to manage an innovation, develop an objective, allocate resources for the innovation, keep organized…

One of a series of monographs providing information about the Delaware Model: A Systems Approach to Science Education (Del Mod System), this monograph describes the role of field agents. These agents are responsible for individual teachers who express a desire for involvement in improving teacher effectiveness and to be involved in the teaching of…

A new debate strategy which may be used in judging academic debates is the application of policy systems analysis. In the policy systems analysis approach, the negative team must advocate a policy system just as the affirmative team does, providing a comparison for the debate judge. The major difference between systems analysis and traditional…

The educational system is characterized by a vector matrix differential equation, and it is shown that the concepts of modern control theory such as observability, controllability, and optimal control can give deeper insight into the behavior of the educational system. The identification of the system dynamics and the definition of a realistic…

This publication defines and illustrates approximately 80 terms and concepts that are crucial to understanding the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Annotations for the individual terms vary in length from approximately 30 to 350 words…

The two papers in this document focus on general systems theory. In her paper, Linda Lederman discusses the emergence and evolution of general systems theory, defines its central concepts, and draws some conclusions regarding the nature of the theory and its value as an epistemology. Don Rogers, in his paper, relates some of the important features…

Twelve publications in the ERIC system were reexamined and more detailed annotations written for this booklet. The approaches to vandalism prevention cited range from a U.S. Senate committee attempting to measure the cost of school vandalism nationwide to measures taken by individual school systems. (MLF)

This paper identifies key variables in both the design and implementation of educational planning models and presents a conceptual framework that meaningfully relates these variables. Purpose of the conceptual framework is to provide educational researchers and practitioners with a "cognitive map" of significant variables associated with…

There are four major functions involved in the management of any human enterprise: planning, organizing, executing, and controlling. Educators would add an additional function--evaluation--although it is generally subsumed under control. The control function has been neglected in education. Control means formative (inprocess) evaluation plus…