ERIC Number: ED268649
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 24
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Policy Documentation and Assessment: A Conceptual Framework.
Rees, Ruth
This paper documents the development of a conceptual framework to ensure that the necessary steps are undertaken for effective policy implementation. These steps include the articulation of policy, the translation of policy into procedures, the operationalizing of those procedures into rules, and then both internal (formative) and external (summative) evaluation. The flexible framework incorporates an adapted version of Stafford Beer's model of recursive systems to illustrate the hierarchical but interdependent levels or groups of people involved in a statewide or provincial educational system, where policy is often initiated at one level to be carried out by representatives at another level. Not only does such a framework assist in the communication of policy, but also it is developed to encourage the ongoing evaluation of policy at different levels of the system. References and figures are included. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Formative Evaluation, Management Systems, Models, Organizational Communication, Organizational Objectives, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Summative Evaluation, Systems Approach
Publication Type: Opinion Papers
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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