Abstract:
This paper was written by the Education Professions Committee which is part
of an NIE-funded program in the Center for Educational Policy and Management
(CEPM) at the University of Oregon. The mission of the program is to investigate
how policy and management affect student mastery of basic
skills in reading and mathematics. The Education Professions Committee was
formed because the CEPM staff believes that human resources represented by the
various education professions have an important impact on school productivity.
These resources need to be better understood, through a program of research, so
that policy makers can use them effectively to improve students' achievement of
the basic skills.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial conceptualization of the
parameters, relationships, and scope of work that the Education Professions
Committee might include in its research agenda. The reader is advised to read
another CEPM paper, "Linking Educational Policy and Management with
Student Achievement," (Duckworth 1981) to see how the Committee's work
relates to the larger mission of the Center’s research program on human
resource management.