Interest in building systems is growing rapidly as school officials become increasingly aware of their advantages: lower cost, faster occupancy, and improved appearances. (Author/MLF)

Article describes a generalized data service system that incorporates many scanning applications. (Author)

Illustrates how systems planning can be used in the recycling of old school space and in erecting multistory additions. (Author/DN)

Evaluates IPI, an instructional system designed to individualize the teaching of subject content. (Author)

Compares the similarities of and the differences among the three instructional systems -- PLAN, IGE, and PIP -- discussed in EA 504 612-614. (MF)

Authors repudiate excessive use of systems engineering models in education. Such models depreciate any learner-teacher-materials-interaction which cannot be assumed to proceed in a pre-determined manner. Efficiency measurement based on maximizing outputs and minimizing inputs produce a kind of prosaic mentality and obtuseness. (Author/PS)

This article describes a summer orientation program used by a liberal arts college in New York. This orientation program utilized the systems approach as most appropriate for the development of a personalized humanistic orientation for newly admitted students. (Author)

Validation here refers to individual evaluation, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation. Twelve steps are listed in a systems approach. (AG)

A systems approach to counselor education is a good step forward if we are willing to face the content question and redefine the objectives of counselor education itself, a redefinition which includes new roles and new functions. Without such a major change, the systems approach may become a mehtod that supports the illusion of change. (Author)

Reviewed and analyzed is The California Tomorrow Plan,'' an imaginative and comprehensive strategy for turning society's assault on the environment into a coherent effort for solving social and environmental problems. If offers a rational method and system for identifying, analyzing, and coping with major disruptions in our society and…

Discusses the potential of creating constructive approaches to educational problems in Mississippi and developing and testing models for approaching similar needs in other geographic regions. (Editor)