The West Virginia University (WVU) model, designed and suggested as a means of meeting the need for a systematic approach to educating group counselors, provides student leaders with a training experience combining certain facets of the models reviewed in the literature: practice and feedback, participation, modeling, and instruction. (Author)

Paper presented at Symposium on the Application of Technology to Education, Washington, D.C., September 9-10, 1968.

Describes a newly developing mode of problem-oriented brief therapy. The systemic therapy model emphasizes the interactional context of clients' problems and represents an efficient intervention paradigm. (Author/JAC)

The purpose of this article is to introduce Transactional Analysis (TA) and to propose it as an explicit and practical model which can help the evaluator understand and deal with interpersonal problems. (Author/ER)

The possible contributions and the major limitations of educational technology are noted and six areas where technology can be applied to educational problems are discussed. (Author)

The purposes of this article are to assess the present status of planning-programming-budgeting systems in education and to offer operational illustrations to those who wish to install certain aspects of PPBS in their school districts. (Author)

Proposes a management-oriented model for describing and studying information behavior and details the testing of the resulting hypotheses through the use of a database describing the information-related attitudes and behaviors of 560 scientists and engineers. (FM)

Seeks to provide a common theoretical foundation for all known bibliometric laws by assimilating a systemic view of the information transfer process with a thermodynamic process, i.e., the conduction of heat in solids. The resulting diffusion model establishes new definitions for informational energy and entropy consistent with corresponding…

The systems approach to instruction is studied through an analysis of the use of this approach by the U.S. Air Force's Air Training Command. An explanation of the USAF Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model is given. (RAO)

The concept of ecosystem signifies the study of living species and their physical environment as an integrated whole. Traces the historical development of the concept in Great Britain and America. (Contains 38 references.) (MDH)