The author advocates a total systems approach to instructional development in universities and outlines three currently advocated schemes for establishing the locus of responsibility for instruction.'' (Author/AK)

The author describes the process of course development" and discusses its implications in terms of allocation of resources, changing roles, needs for specialist personnel, etc." Appended are 20 references. (Author/AA)

The student-centered curriculum concept is "described in terms of a series of postulates which provide a basic definition of what the student-centered curriculum is to be. From these postulates, propositions are then derived which describe the way the student-centered curriculum would be constructed and how it would operate. This paper was…

Discusses various elements which must be considered in the development of industrial arts curriculum: society and culture, human adaptive systems, the universal systems model, system processes, the role of schooling, and curriculum theory. (CT)

Reviews and discusses the potential accomplishments and limitations of a performance-based method of deriving instructional content, taking into account five broad classes of learning outcomes--intellectual skills, information, cognitive strategies, attitudes, and motor skills--which are viewed as what is learned in any or all of the subjects of a…

Six experts discuss four major criticisms of the instructional systems design model: (1) it is too slow and clumsy to meet today's training challenges, (2) it has no substance; (3) used as directed, it produces bad solutions, and (4) it clings to the wrong world view. (JOW)

Adopts the dramatic form of a modern morality play to examine the confrontation of humanistic curriculum values and educational accountability. (WM)

Author provided a cellular systems approach to curriculum development in order to counteract the aimless evolvement of curriculum programs administrators often have difficulty formulating due to a shortage of time. (Author/RK)

Curriculum designers have derived data for instructional purposes from 1) the subject matter, 2) society, and 3) the learner. The computer plays an instrumental role in individualizing the presentation of curriculum derived from these sources. Research on instruction has concerned itself with devising material for individual needs and adapting…

A graduate level course was developed and tested using the techniques of computer-managed instruction (CMI) to teach the techniques of programed instruction. The CMI system included diagnostic testing, remediation, data collection, and record keeping. A study guide, independent of the computer, directed the student to textbooks and other printed…

A new kind of systems approach to science educational publishing is presented in this paper. This synergistic approach to the publishing of instructional materials for science education would require input from psychologists, scientists, classroom teachers, and science education researchers. The role of the science education researcher is…