An Integrated Program For Effective Organizational Change Within A School District Involving Staff, Student, And Citizen Participation (Group Culture, Management Skills, Team Building, Integrated Planning, Incentive)

The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated program for effective organizational change within a school system involving staff, student, and citizen participation. Concepts and practices pertinent to strategic planning and in harmony with systems theory were examined and applied to educational planning. The complex human elements of an organization that can act as barriers against or channels for facilitating planned change were reviewed as interdependent with strategic planning and participative decision-making; Five steps to organizational success were presented as forming an integrated approach to planned change within a school system. Built upon each other in sequential order to form a solid strategic structure, these key concept areas include group culture, management skills, team building, integrated planning, and incentive programs. Through a three-dimensional view of the school system, the unconscious and nonrational aspects of human life merge with strategies, structures, and incentives to form a dynamic, integrated whole greater than the sum of its parts; An ongoing cycle for planned change was identified as focusing on the implementation of strategic planning and organizational growth. The six phases for planned change include diagnosing needs, obtaining support, identifying strategy, prescribing action, implementing plans, and evaluating results; Nationwide data pertaining to educational planning and organizational change were reviewed and analyzed. A handbook was developed and included as an aid to managers in conceptualizing and applying an integrated approach to organizational success in the school system. Participative management, system analysis, formative evaluation, forecasting, group culture, motivation, and productivity were each considered within the construct of organizational change. Interacting human elements and active involvement of stakeholders were identified as key issues to effecting change within a school system

WanderECHO : A Connectionist Simulation of Limited Coherence

The Theory of Explanatory Coherence, or TEC, (Ranney & Thagard, 1988; Thagard. 1989, 1992) and ECHO, a connectionist implementation of TEC, attempt to model human reasoning about evidence and hypotheses. The ECH O model is based on the simultaneous satisfaction of multiple constraints. This yields predicted activations ("believabilities") for propositions, which are based on the propositions' evidential status, their explanatory relationships, and their contradictory relationships. While ECH O has been demonstrated to usefully model human reasoning, it does not model processing limitations on the maintenance of coherence. WanderECHO is a variation on the ECH O model that attempts to simulate attentional and memorial limitations with a stochastic updating algorithm that is based on a traveling focus of attention. Several variants of the WanderECHO simulation were applied to Schank and Ranney's (1991) data, and were found to generally simulate subjects' mean believability ratings better than standard ECHO

Performance Assessment Links in Science

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Performance Assessment Links in Science

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Modelos explicativos da memória prospectiva: uma revisão teórica

Neste artigo é apresentada uma revisão da literatura sobre os mecanismos cognitivos associados à memória prospectiva, organizados de acordo com a divisão das diferentes fases da recordação prospectiva (i.e., codificação, retenção e recuperação). Inicialmente, é apresentada a diversidade de dados da investigação que sustentam diferentes abordagens explicativas do fenômeno de recuperação de intenções, considerando a natureza automática ou estratégica da memória prospectiva. Em seguida, são salientadas as potenciais explicações sobre os mecanismos presentes durante o intervalo de retenção e na fase de codificação.(undefined

Derrida's 'The Purveyor of Truth' and constitutional reading

In this article the author explores Jacques Derrida’s reading in ‘The Purveyor of Truth’ of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’. In his essay, Derrida proposes a reading which differs markedly from the interpretation proposed by Lacan in his Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’. To appreciate Derrida’s reading, which is not hermeneutic-semantic in nature like that of Lacan, it is necessary to look at the relation of Derrida’s essay to his other texts on psychoanalysis, more specifically insofar as the Freudian death drive is concerned. The present article explores this ‘notion’ as elaborated on by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle as well as Derrida’s reading of this text. It also investigates the importance of the ‘notion’ of the death drive as well as the significance of Derrida’s reading of The Purloined Letter for constitutional interpretation

The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status and distribution of the world's mammals. Data, compiled by 1700+ experts, cover all 5487 species, including marine mammals. Global macroecological patterns are very different for land and marine species but suggest common mechanisms driving diversity and endemism across systems. Compared with land species, threat levels are higher among marine mammals, driven by different processes (accidental mortality and pollution, rather than habitat loss), and are spatially distinct (peaking in northern oceans, rather than in Southeast Asia). Marine mammals are also disproportionately poorly known. These data are made freely available to support further scientific developments and conservation action

General Terms

Domain experts are essential for successful software development, but these experts may not recognize their ideas when abstracted into Unified Modeling Language (UML) or ontologies. We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare and validate the model. The open-source tool, “NEMo, ” is a by-product of a team effort to invent and refine a complex data model and library of examples