"Within this article, there is first an examination of the present emphases and anticipated trends in audiovisual services, and second, a model which is presented as a step toward structuring our changing responsibilities." (Author)

Suggests that the best organizational model to expedite university planning would make provision for a 5-stage process: localized planning, planning by committee, planning by an outside agency, institutional research, and the establishment of a specific planning department. (Author)

A system designed to plan and empirically validate an advanced program for elementary and secondary education is presented. (CK)

A program that embraces educational innovation only when the thought behind the change has been internalized is presented. (CK)

This paper describes a theoretical model and the results of its application to a particular laboratory program. A variety of issues arising from this kind of design are also described. (Author/CJ)

Presents a three-dimensional model for program development, based upon (1) Apps' identification of adult educators' philosophies (acquiring content, problem solving, self-actualization), (2) Houle's categories of adult learners (goal oriented, activity oriented, learning oriented), and Lawshe's dimensions of institutional programing (time-place,…

Presents a community analysis plan used at the University of Colorado to develop a graduate-level community health nursing program. Examines a model that describes different possibilities for including the aggregate in community health nursing programs. States that community health nursing will be strengthened by developing associations between…

Robert Stake presents his views on responsive evaluation, naturalistic approaches to evaluation, the role of testing in evaluation, and the training of evaluators. (BW)

Counselors and administrators need to collaboratively build a guidance program. This article offers a model of a people-oriented guidance program that requires the principal's active participation in challenging old assumptions and exploring new roles to bring about change. A checklist for establishing an effective program is provided. (Author/WD)

Presents an evaluation model representative of specific programmatic components and based on issues of attitude change or personal development, process change or instructional development, and structural change or organizational development, for use in administrative and teacher appraisal. (RAO)

Ten elements comprising the basic level of play therapy with children are presented, and the "resort" model, upon which successful play therapy is based, is discussed. (MJB)

Recent developments in the area of respite care for families of handicapped individuals are discussed. Two programs, the Hartford Regional Center, which has more than 60 licensed respite homes on its lists, and the Respite Care center of the St. Louis Association for Retarded Children, which has a 16 bed facility, are described. (PHR)