The Northampton County Area Community Colleges (Pennsylvania) have developed one approach to the problem of maintaining student-teacher contact and budget levels, while providing learning opportunities for increasing numbers of students. Class meetings and individual cassette-tape instruction are combined with pre-specified behavioral objectives…

The director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration at the University of Oregon and one of his associates discuss the new role of administration in an individual-oriented educational system. (AA)

A generalized model for successful coordination of grants and funded projects. (Editor)

Presents a possible process model for education based on a problem solving referent, and suggests some alternatives for identifying and possibly integrating current thrusts toward the systematic and valid improvement of education. (JF)

A computer based planning and budgeting system aids decisionmakers in planning for allocation of limited resources. (RA)

The systems engineer attempts to predict the consequences of his system's operation. (Editor)

Identifies information specialists who employ systems methodology and discusses the modern systems movement, its role in the changing world view of science, disciplines (cybernetics and operations research) that have contributed to its development, and distinctions between General Systems Theory and other approaches to the study of systems.…

To teach geography that is meaningful in general education--at the elementary, secondary, or college levels--an integrative approach which transmits understanding of the earth as a total system must be used. How to teach physical, cultural, economic, and regional geography in general courses is discussed. (RM)

Compares design of instructional system with that of data processing system, noting similarities (needs analysis, definition of required outputs, identification of inputs, need for design processing, development of procedures, testing, implementation); structured design techniques; and advantages of structured instructional system design. Warnier…

Presents a classification system for family therapists based on an integration of family systems research in healthy and disturbed families and clinical data. The model provides tools for cross-sectional, process-oriented family assessment derived from family competency in task performance and family operating style. Describes seven family types…

The author explains why he favors a systems-oriented approach to organizational development that conceives of the total organization of a system or a family of systems and develops all of them comprehensively. The four systems in this approach are technical, social, administrative, and strategic. (CT)