New developments in the building industry meet the cost-time-quality challenge. (Author)

A coordinated and articulated evaluation system at all levels in occupational education is vitally important to the success of programs. (Author)

Regarding educational improvement as a continuing process based upon research, feedback, and modification, the effective utilization of educational research in the comprehensive ES'70 program is described as dependent upon the extent to which an effective network of interagency and interpersonal communications is developed. (JK)

Author advocates an administrative model incorporating a university wide management information system" in order to end further impulsive development" and to enable the university to withstand increasing pressures. (Editor)

Systems analysis offers a useful approach for the redirection of counselor education. The formulation of training objectives stated in terms of what the counselor candidate will be doing as a result of instruction is an intrinsic part of the systems approach. (Author)

Conceptual approach to arranging the course sequence of industrial arts teacher education programs. (Author/GB)

Discusses trends toward the systems approach in education including the development of effective instructional systems in government and industry; the introduction of teaching machines, programed learning, and computer- assisted instruction; and the increase in both the amount and sophistication of educational research and development. (JF)

Discusses the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) project, a system of mass produced facility components. The experience provided by the project should be of value to those using the systems approach to design and construction. (JF)

Pointing to the fragmentation that currently exists in the educational programs of most developing countries, the author calls for a coordinated, international effort in rural adult education which would make use of the new technology. (LS)

Discussed are the contributions of the Regional Educational Laboratory for the Carolinas and Virginia (RELCV) to fourteen junior colleges. Most attention is given to the implementation of the idea of "performance agreements, a contract between the college and a faculty member tying his salary increases to the performance of his students. (LS)

Explores the relationship between a general theory of living systems and the conceptualization and practice of counseling. Emphasis is placed on the individual. After providing a rationale for adopting a systems perspective, specific system dimensions are discussed. The relationship of these dimensions to current counseling theories is developed.…

Addresses clinical and methodological issues in conducting the Marital Systems Study, a research project evaluating the efficacy of systems-oriented conjoint treatment with couples in which one spouse is abusing alcohol. These include standardizing and monitoring the intervention and developing an interactional perspective on the alcohol-related…

This paper identifies projects that have successfully applied the systems approach to instructional design and points to situations where that approach may be inappropriate. A method which relies on strict sequencing of objectives and means may not be easily adaptable for individualized programs in which means and ends emerge from instructional…