This document conceptualizes the university as a living social system with technical, managerial, service, and institutional subsystems that have specialized goals. The document discusses models of university compliance systems--the compliance of university participants in different models such as formal, semiformal, and informal. In developing…

Lack of effectiveness in current instructional output is due to the nature of the theories formulated to improve the structuring of the content of instruction. A rationale is presented for a theoretical position. Based upon this rationale a paradigm is outlined which provides the basis for a comprehensive category system for instructional design…

Beginning January 1, 1969, Systems Research Group (SRG) undertook a project to develop operational cost simulation models of three of the colleges of applied arts and technology in Ontario. These models, and the data needed to feed them, have been developed and are now operating. SRG describes their progress to date and identifies the remaining…

From the systems viewpoint, educational planning is the mechanism through which the educational system makes its goals specific and adapt its priorities, resources, and operational patterns to the changing environmental forces of its particular society. The systems-oriented administrator is a change agent and innovative strategist who delegates…

Developed at Brigham Young University, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a technique for enhancing the probability of success in any system by analyzing the most likely modes of failure that could occur. It provides a logical, step-by-step description of possible failure events within a system and their interaction--the combinations of potential…

Simulation is defined and its use, as related to three types of models, iconic, analogue, and symbolic, that may be utilized in educational research is discussed. A five-step procedure is outlined that can be followed in the process of symbolic model construction. Simulation methods, based on these three models, are examined, and illustrations of…

This report, a clear statement of how one district developed a planning system, offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to providing the superintendent, his staff, and the board of education with a comprehensive planning system instrument for making policy decisions and allocating resources. Also provided are guidelines for involving…

This monograph explores some implications of a new wave rooted in applications of industrial management to curriculum practice. It contains a "model" of a general strategy for evaluating and responding to proposals that particular managerial or instructional systems be adopted. Keyed to this model are specimen sets of questions for teachers,…

This newsletter focuses primarily on the educational facility building systems of Boston and Detroit, and incorporates a brief progress report on the Montreal building project. In addition, the results of ten years of involvement by Educational Facilities Laboratories in exploring the feasibility of developing and applying building systems for…

With the growing concern for the development of good mathematical education planning models, few states have developed the type of enrollment projection systems that they would consider to be ideal. The primary objectives of this research project were to develop, construct, and document an enrollment forecasting system for use by the Ohio Board of…

Theories about the ways in which family therapy promotes behavioral change are reviewed and a conceptual scheme containing four models or papadigms is proposed. Clinical and research evidence supporting each of the models is presented, and the overall scheme is discussed in relation to a systems theory approach to family therapy. (Author)

The development of conceptual prototypes preceded a vocational-technical school building program in the state of Tennessee. (MLF)

This paper describes a systems approach to instructional psychology which can be used by school counselors as a basis for diagnosis and remediation in the classroom. Interrelationships of the four components of a basic teaching model are emphasized. Selected aspects of each component, important for effective instruction, are discussed. (Author)

The systems approach to instructional design is advocated as a problem solving model for the discipline of educational psychology because it incorporates traditional concepts and provides (1) a method for delivering effective service; (2) a wide array of research and evaluation problems; and (3) an integrative framework for graduate training…

A structural model of curriculum evaluation is presented that is based on a decision-oriented concept of evaluation. Its three major components--information, technique, and decision-purpose--are discussed. (ND)