Performance Technology: A New Perspective for the Public Schools

Abstract

A decade of criticism has been aimed at the American public school system for failing to provide an adequate education for our children. There is indeed much to improve. However, this article laments the prevalent tendency of both educators and legislators to implement stop-gap, temporary, quick-fix measures in an effort to solve problems in a system of education. In the long run, this finger-in-the-dike approach does little more than place band-aids on the symptoms of a problem which has serious cones quences for the social and economic future of this great country. Systemic problems require systemic and systematic solutions. This article proposes that human performance technology, which by its very nature addresses the systematic analysis, design, and evaluation of interventions that create worthwhile performances and changes in people, does indeed offer a viable framework in which to review the current educational system and seek real solutions to its problems.

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