Educational Systems Theory

Welcome to the SIGGS home page. You will find information on a theory of education which was developed from a well-defined systems model. Both the theory and the model are complex, requiring considerable study for full comprehension. We hope that the SIGGS Web will help create a major paradigm shift in how people think about education. The SIGGS model is an integration of Set, Information, diGraph and General Systems theories.

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• Overview
• Seminar on Understanding Systemic Change in Education
• Education system: an introduction
• Education theory: 201 hypotheses
• Basic SIGGS Properties
• SIGGS Structural Properties (configural patterns)
• SIGGS Dynamic Properties (temporal change)
• System: fundamental notions underlying SIGGS
  
  

  Examples of Systems Thinking

• Restructuring Education Through Technology
• Criteria for Evaluating Use of Technology in K-12 Education
• Transforming Education: Case Studies in Systems Thinking (Kira King and Ted Frick)
• The Most Powerful Educational System in the World with No One in Charge
• Nonmetric Temporal Path Analysis: Subsequently renamed Analysis of Patterns in Time (pdf)-- see Frick research.
• Beyond SIGGS: Axiomatic-General Behavioral Systems Theory (Kenneth Thompson)
• The impact of standards and assessments on educational systems (Kenneth Thompson)
• SimEd: proposal for simulating educational systems (Ted Frick)

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Last updated by T. W. Frick, November 19, 2018