Educational Systems Theory

Property: Spillage

Definition:

"Educational system spillage is restriction in feedin." (p.23)

Comments:

Spillage involves toput which never becomes input. That is, it involves items that were made available to the system, which were rejected. Items that tried to become t oput, but which were restricted through filtration, are never made available to the system, and are not subject to spillage.

Illustration:

Examples:

32.1 For example, over 10,000 people apply to Harvard University each year. Through filtration (SAT scores, GPA, references), Harvard University may only offer 3,000 of those students admission. Therefore, 3,000 students are now recognized as toput--a s being eligible to attend. If, however, only 2,000 attend, then the 1,000 remaining students are spillage.

32.2 For example, prior to Public Law 94-142, some handicapped people were not allowed to attend public school. Hence, they were spillage.

32.3 Some students try to bring drugs and guns to school. If the guns an drugs are not allowed to enter school grounds and buildings, then they become spillage.

32.4 If parents attempt to send notes to their children's teachers, but those notes get lost on the way to school, then the parents' messages are spillage.

32.5 If an individual receives 100 electronic mail messages per day, but only has time to read a few, many messages are left unread. These neglected messages are spillage (toput that is not input)

32.6 The Smith Animal shelter can only house 95 pets, and has a rule that it will only accept pets from the local community. If a pet is brought in from 50 miles away, filtration will prevent it from becoming toput. If, however, a pet is brought in f rom down the block (it is toput), and the shelter must refuse it entry because it already has 95 pets, this pet is spillage.

32.7 A college or graduate student has a long list of reading material and homework assignment to complete, the work that is not completed is spillage.

Related Terms:

input

toput

filtration

feedin

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Hypotheses Containing the Property: Spillage

#20. If educational system feedin increases, then spillage increases.

#22. If educational system feedthrough is less than some value, then filtration is greater than some value or spillage is greater than some value.

#38. If change in educational system input is greater than change in feedthrough, then spillage increases.

#39. If educational system input is greater than some value and spillage is less than some value, then storeput increases.

#40. If educational system input is less than some value and spillage is less than some value, then storeput decreases.

#46. If educational system storeput increases and (filtration decreases or spillage decreases), then information growth increases.

#47. If educational system feedthrough is greater than some value and spillage is less than some value and feedback is greater than some value, then efficiency is greater than some value.

#98. If educational system storeput increases and (filtration decreases or spillage decreases), then integration increases.

#109. If educational system complete connectivity increases or strongness increases, then spillage increases.

#150. If educational system automorphism increases, then input increases and storeput increases and fromput decreases and feedo ut decreases and filtration decreases and spillage decreases and efficiency decreases.

#159. If educational system environmental change is greater than some value and compatibility is greater than some value and stability is greater than some value, then storeput is greater than some value or filtration is greater than some value or spillage is greater than some value.

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