Educational Systems Theory

Property: Toput

Definition:

"Educational system toput is educational system environment." (p. 49)

Comments:

That is, toput is a negasystem of at least two components with at least one affect relation which has selective information.

Illustration:

Examples:

Toput is the choice environment for an education system -- i.e., what is available to choose from in the negasystem. For example, people are available in the educational system choice environment who are part of a social system. Some of those may be qualified as potential teachers in an education system. Other people may available to the education system as potential students, administrators and staff. Money, textbooks and computers may also be available in the educational system's choice environment (cf. Ackoff and Emery, 1972). Guns, gangs and drugs may also be educational system toput.

To extend the example, the educational system produces (in theory) educated students. They are output from the educational system, but become toput to other education systems who are seeking teachers, administrators, or graduate students.

Related Terms:

fromput

feedin

input

feedthrough

feedback

filtration

spillage

efficiency

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Hypotheses Containing the Property: toput

#5. If educational system toput increases, then input increases to some value and then decreases.

#6. If educational system toput greater than some value increases, then fromput increases.

#7. If educational system toput is nearly minimum, then fromput increases.

#8. If educational system toput increases, then filtration decreases to some value and then increases.

#9. If educational system toput increases, then regulation less than some value increases.

#33. If educational system toput increases and fromput increases, then feedthrough increases.

#34. If educational system toput is constant and efficiency is greater than some value, then regulation is less than some value.

#90. If educational system toput increases, then centrality decreases.

#96. If educational system toput is nearly minimum and fromput increases, then disconnectivity increases.

#105. If educational system centrality increases, then toput decreases.

#106. If educational system complete connectivity increases or strongness increases, then toput increases.

#138. If educational system toput increases and compactness greater than some value increases then regulation increases.

#139. If educational system toput increases and it is not the case that compactness greater than some value increases, then efficiency decreases.

#147. If educational system toput increases and feedout is nearly minimum, then stress increases.

#158. If educational system toput increases and size is constant, then feedback increases.

#160. If educational system toput increases and fromput increases and size is constant, then feedout increases.

#162. If educational system toput is less than some value and feedin increases and stability is less than some value, then stability increases.

#163. If educational system toput is greater than some value and feedin decreases and stability is less than some value, then stability increases.

#190. If educational system homomorphism at time 2 is greater than homomorphism at time 1, then toput is nearly maximum and size degeneration is nearly maximum and complexity degeneration is nearly maximum.

#194. If educational system size increases and complexity growth is constant, then toput increases.

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