This work addresses the importance of innovation in entrepreneurial and business education to ensure that students develop the ability to make complex decisions and solve complex challenges. The intention was to incorporate the complexity theory in decision-making and problem-solving in business and entrepreneurship. To achieve this, we present…

The purpose of this study was to design an integrated evaluation framework that would guide the measurement of the implementation of "Empowering Modern Learners" (EML) and that would provide opportunities for a conjoint participatory evaluative format. EML is a board-wide project intended to ensure high expectations for student…

Educational leaders need to be able to make outstanding decisions for planning, organizing and directing others. Herein, we discuss the impact of educational leadership in developing structural plans, cultural diversity, curriculum standards, and faculty engagement. Cultural diversity remains as an unresolved issue, but student's negative…

One of the most challenging issues for online courseware engineering is to maintain the quality of instructional components, such as written text, video, and assessments. Learning engineers would like to know how individual instructional components contributed to students' learning. However, it is a hard task because it requires significant…

Peer group learning is the name we have given to a particular type of collaborative learning that has been implemented as part of an action research project designed to improve teaching and learning of first year university mathematics at James Cook University. Using an innovation-decision process model we analysed the response of academics to the…

This paper focuses on the importance of information and documentation (I&D) as one of the essential production factors in pharmaceutical industrial activities. The need for and use of I&D services depends far more on such factors as product profile, decision making processes within the organization, and ownership than on the size of the…

This document presents results of a prediction investigation into factors that might account for variations in the success of attempts at educational innovation. Four stages of innovation (adoption, planning, implementation, and institutionalization) are isolated and described, and the attention paid by this investigation to the innovation studies…

This paper discusses Program Management (PM), a decision-making process which uses a diachronic, idea-generating communication mode. Decision making according to a PM model entails obtaining a mandate or authorization, identifying the problem, exploring for knowledge and generating solutions, reviewing proposals and developing resources,…

The results from application of Stufflebeam's comprehensive decision-making methodology--the context-input-process-product (CIPP) evaluation model--to the evaluation of a dental team training program with expanded functions of auxiliary personnel (paraprofessionals) at a school of dentistry are described. In view of the expectations of health care…

One problem confronting theater directors is how to revive a play in such a way as to give it new relevance to a contemporary audience, and there many unhappy examples of this dilemma. Each director is concerned with exploring the text, and in some cases, manipulating the content, in order to bring out new meanings. Whether controversial or…

This report describes the experiences of four junior high school teachers who engaged in the education change process. Further, it analyzes reasons as well as consequences of their decision to participate in the development and implementation of an innovative program. Using the methodology of participant observation, including observation,…

Two hypotheses guided these studies: (1) administrators with a greater risk propensity will develop more innovative job targets in a management-by-objectives program than will those with less risk propensity, and (2) educators' risk propensity will increase after group discussion. The Choice Dilemmas measure, content analysis of goal statements,…

The primary focus of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is the individual teacher and professor involved in explorinq, selecting, and implementing educational innovations. The conceptual basis of CBAM proposes developmental steps of growth in feelings and skills that are experienced by individuals as they adopt innovations. The CBAM also…

The innovators of a functional level testing program must make decisions in the context of situational factors. There are several decision points involving the important elements of a testing program. Establishing the need for functional level testing is the first decision to be made. A systematic examination of in-level test data will document…

Designed for use in helping parents to become familiar with their children's microcomputer needs, this guide addresses two important questions: whether parents should provide a computer in the home to assist children in their reading development, and which computer they should purchase. The answer to the first question is a simple yes, but the…