This 1979-80 guide includes information about the basic rationale, the economic principles, and the computational procedures used in the College Scholarship Service need-analysis system. Contents include: an introduction to the principles and practices of student financial aid administration, the history of need analysis, the theory of need analysis (measuring parental ability to pay and measuring student resources), computation procedures for the financial aid form, special problems in need analysis, procedures for processing the financial aid form, constructing student expense budgets, packaging aid resources, sample cases of financial aid forms, income tax tables, a 1979 financial aid form, and a guide to the edited financial aid form. (SW)