Guidelines on creating scripts, chosing writers, and developing staff." (Editor)

Training of systems analysts requires development of understanding and job skill in certain background areas (creativity, work simplification and organization studies), hardware topics (unit record setup and computer programing), and analysis techniques (computer systems design, statistics and operations research). (Author/EB)

Applying Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS) to education, particularly to school media programs, is not essentially different from PPBS in the Pentagon. (Author)

By analyzing its own development (financial canvassing) efforts, a young church in the Midwest found guidelines for using group meetings to improve program planning. (LY)

The author comments on "the state of programming languages now, mentions some new directions, and sums up with a few evasive projections." (Author/LS)

Adaptation of a paper presented at a regional meeting of the American Technical Association (Rochester Inst. of Technology, November 23, 1968).

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,…

Points out accomplishments of Project Head Start and suggests issues to be considered for future program development. (RH)

A learning disabilities program at the American Community School in Athens, Greece followed the procedures established by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The 12 children (grades two through four) participating exhibited statistically significant growth in most academic and perceptual areas. The model was inexpensive as…

The evaluation process of gifted programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District has evolved from a city-wide effort to measure cognitive and affective achievement through standardized tests to a more decentralized approach in which individual schools determine evaluation methods. Plans call for computerized data analysis. (CL)

Characterizes development education in Canadian schools, briefly indicating agencies supporting such work and describing emerging trends in activities being conducted in Canadian provinces and territories. (RH)