FULL TITLE: Conducting Collective Inquiry. Volume IV of A Sourcebook for Design of a Regional Environmental Learning System [Project title: Development of an Interpretive Structural Model and Strategies for Implementation Based on a Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis of Resources for Environmental Education/Studies. Contract #300-700-4028].
ANNOTATION: CONDUCTING COLLECTIVE INQUIRY is Volume 4 of a 6-volume set of reference reports sponsored by the U. S. Office of Environmental Education under a contract supervised by Walter J. Bogan, and directed by John Warfield at University of Virginia. A University of Dayton research team directed by Professor Raymond L. Fitz wrote nearly all of Volume 4, in a large and significant contribution to the project, which was inserted as a 298-page APPENDIX TO VOLUME 4* (and titled: Computer Implementation of Interpretive Structural Modeling, Parts One and Two).
Since the entire Volume 4 was 335 pages, the University of Dayton team should have been primary contributing author, but it wasn’t to be. Unfortunately, through a chain of circumstances which can not be repeated here, and resulting primarily from government regulations, the 298 pages of work from University of Dayton had to be subsumed as an Appendix! The University of Dayton’s APPENDIX to VOLUME 4 quickly became the most frequently used part of the Source Book. Ray Fitz’s team had provided not only an excellent User Guide for ISM Software, but also the entire Fortran program for ISM, in print. For years to come, their User Guide, and the Fortran program were the basis of later publications and software programs written for Interpretive Structural Modeling.
This University of Dayton report is available in hard copy in Box 12, Folder 4 of the Warfield Collection C0016 at Fenwick Library, where it is cataloged under the title: "A Source Book for Design of a Regional Learning Systems Volume 4 & Two Reports Dealing With Computer Software for ISM, Computer Implementation of Interpretive Structural Modeling, Parts 1 and 2: Appendix to Volume 4 " [R. L. FITZ ET AL], 1979."
The Appendix is the only portion of Volume 4 which was considered important enough to place in the IASIS file, where Appendix-Parts 1 and 2 have IASIS file numbers: 79/022 and 79/023. Along with other IASIS file papers, the Appendix is available at the ITESM Library, Monterrey, Mexico. COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURAL MODELING* (the 2-part Appendix) was published separately by University of Dayton in September 1979, as Report No. UDR-TR-79-79. Also, the complete Source Book Vol 4 is available from ERIC clearing house. Here is the ERIC Abstract: “The steps, approaches, and tools of the collective inquiry process posited by a Regional Environmental Learning System is the subject of this volume. Approaches discussed include: (1) charrette approach, (2) AT&T/Battelle approach, and (3) the Washington State approach. Tools for collective inquiry are described and field tests are discussed. References and four topical bibliographies are provided. An appendix presents a computer program for modeling technique proposed for use in collective inquiry.” (RE) ERIC ACCESSION NO: ED187570; CLEARINGHOUSE NO.:SE030972 AVAILABILITY: EDRS Price - MF01/PC16 Plus Postage. World Catalog ACCESSION No: 7664288 IASIS File Number: 79/022 and 79/023 (The IASIS File contains only the portions of this report which were written in Dayton, Ohio, by Fitz, et all, - e.g. Appendix volumes I and II).
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